Definitions for calyculus

calyculus ca·lyc·u·lus

Spelling: [kuh-lik-yuh-luh s]
IPA: /kəˈlɪk yə ləs/

Calyculus is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in calyculus (accllsuuy).

Definitions for calyculus

noun

  1. Zoology.. Also, caliculus. a structure shaped like a cup.
  2. Botany. a set of bracts resembling an outer calyx.

Origin of calyculus

Latin, equivalent to calyc- (stem of calyx calyx) + -ulus -ule

Examples for calyculus

Sporangium ovoid, more or less elongated; the calyculus small, plicate-sulcate.

Sporangium oblong-ovoid, stipitate; the calyculus small, thin, smooth.

The calyculus is variable in size; in some examples the thin connecting membrane between the ribs has disappeared.

The outer membrane of the calyculus is by no means always absent.

The colors are obscure, but the striations on the calyculus are violet-tinted, and the reds perhaps predominate elsewhere.

It differs from all other American forms, so far described, in the peculiar development of the calyculus.

Sporangium ovoid-oblong; the calyculus small, sulcate and ribbed, granulose.

Sporangium cylindric; the calyculus small, granulose, ribbed and sulcate.

This common species is well marked both by its color and by the delicate attachment of the capillitium to the calyculus.

Sporangium ovoid; the calyculus very small, finely ribbed and granulose.

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