Calyptra is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 226 anagrams from letters in calyptra (aaclprty).
1745-55; New Latin Greek kalýptra veil, covering, equivalent to kalýp(tein) to veil, cover + -tra noun suffix
The calyptra (fig. 24) is half-cleft (dimidiate) and very hairy.
The sporogonium when nearly mature bursts the calyptra irregularly.
The calyptra or veil is remarkably small, smooth, and membranous.
The calyptra is half-cleft, and the lid conical and shortly beaked.
Calyp′trate, furnished with such; Calyp′triform, Calyptrimor′phous, having the form of a calyptra.
If not preserved in an envelope the calyptra and operculum are very apt to fall off and become lost.
Calyptriform, shaped like a calyptra or candle-extinguisher.
calyptra minute, lacerate, persistent at the base of the capsule.
calyptra membranous, oval, longer or shorter than the involucre.
The calyptra (fig. 36) is half-cleft, and expanded as if blown out below.