Definition of Calycinal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a calyx.

Exact synonyms: Calyceal, Calycine
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Calyx, Calyx, Calyx
Derivative terms: Calyx

Definition of Calycinal

1. a. Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.

Definition of Calycinal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calycinal

calvinistical
calvish
calvities
calvity
calvous
calx
calxes
calycanthus
calycanthus family
calycanthuses
calycate
calyceal
calyces
calyciform
calyciform ending
calycinal (current term)
calycine
calycle
calycled
calycles
calycoid
calycular
calyculate
calycule
calycules
calyculi
calyculin A
calyculus
calymmatobacterium
calyon

Literary usage of Calycinal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lower Peninsula, 1873-1876: Accompanied by a Geological Map by Carl Ludwig Rominger, Samuel S. Garrigues, Michigan Geological Survey (1876)
"These blistered calycinal membranous layers arc radiated by plications, which are linear low crests in the circumference of an inner, broad, shallow cell ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"The first calycinal cycle is always perpendicular thereto. ... There are, in all cases, slight differences betwen the two calycinal cycles. ..."

3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The genus in which these supposed calycinal ... The irregularity of these "calycinal plates" both in develop- FpI. XXIV. ..."

4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"The first of these theories, the calycinal of Loven, Carpenter and Sladen, ''asserts that certain skeletal elements, with a definite arrangement, ..."

5. Naturalist by Yorkshire Naturalists'Union (1865)
"... alongside R. cinnamomea, L., two species differing much in their leaves, prickles, bracts, and calycinal divisions : R. spinosissima, L., figures badly ..."

6. Monography of the Genus Camellia Or: An Essay on Its Culture, Description by Lorenzo Berlèse (1838)
"... of a glossy green; bud very large, oblong, with yellow calycinal scales; flower, more than three inches in diameter, double, of a deep orange-red, ..."

7. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"In the centre of the apex there is a small aperture, from which a narrow calycinal ambulacra! groove extends in each direction towards the anterior and ..."

8. Geological Survey of Michigan by Michigan Geological Survey (1876)
"These blistered calycinal membranous layers are radiated by plications, ... it differs from it in its broad calycinal bottoms having the shape of diaphragms ..."

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