Lexic.us

Definition of Calycine

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

Definition of Calycine

1. pertaining to a calyx [adj] - See also: calyx

Medical Definition of Calycine

1. Of the nature of, or resembling a calix. Synonym: calycine. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calycine

Literary usage of Calycine

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

1. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... peduncles longer than the calyx : calycine segments ovate or oblong, entire or serrated : flowers largish, yellow: filaments bearded with purple hairs. ..."

2. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"... although the б calycine teeth (not 4, as in all the other species) and structure of the drupe evidently declare it to be so. ORDER XXX. ..."

3. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Corolla tomentose or hairy: Peduncle elongate, fi inches or more 19. C. superba. Peduncle short; calycine lobes connate 15. ..."

4. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"stem erect, branching: leaves whorled and scattered: spike filiform, peduncled: flowers distinctly alternate, approximate, crested: calycine wings ..."

5. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"The changes which the fruit undergoes in this interval are a considerable increase in girth and a thickening of the calycine walls, together with a ..."

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