Definition of Calyculate

1. Adjective. Having a calyculus.

Exact synonyms: Calycled
Partainyms: Calyculus, Calyculus

Definition of Calyculate

1. a. Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calyculate

calycanthus
calycanthus family
calycanthuses
calycate
calyceal
calyces
calyciform
calyciform ending
calycinal
calycine
calycle
calycled
calycles
calycoid
calycular
calyculate (current term)
calycule
calycules
calyculi
calyculin A
calyculus
calymmatobacterium
calyon
calyons
calypses
calypsoes
calypsolike
calypsonian
calypsonians

Literary usage of Calyculate

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... it U characterized by solitary flower-heade with a calyculate involucre, a naked receptacle, copious simple pappus, and long-beaked achenes. ..."

2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"4-o-flowered. of as many bracts and 1 or 2 very small calyculate ones: achenes 2—3 mm. lone, gradually tapering from the truncate summit to base, ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Involucre of 12 or more equal lanceolate bracts, and calyculate with a few ... Involucre narrow, minutely calyculate-bracteate at base; the true bracts ..."

4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Lower leaves linear, the upper leaves scale- like, lanceolate, 2-5 mm. long; heads lateral, short-peduncled; calyculate bracts ovate, more or less imbricate ..."

5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"Pappus chaffy, or of both chaff and bristles. 84. Krigia. Involucre simple, not calyculate. Pappus of both chaff and bristles. 85. ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"The apices are calyculate in Bitis, Clotho (Fig. 10), and Vip- era, ... They are calyculate in Crota- lida; in Bothrops, Ancistrodon, ..."

7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"The scales of the involucre are broader and rather obtuse, and the calyculate bracts much fewer and mostly short : akènes more striate. ..."

8. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... inflorescence corymbose, naked or nearly so ; heads cylindrical ; involucre barely calyculate; ligules but slightly surpassing the disk- flowers. ..."

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