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Definition of Calycle

1. Noun. A group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus.

2. Noun. A small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp).

Definition of Calycle

1. n. A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

Definition of Calycle

1. Noun. (botany) A row of small bracts at the base of the calyx, on the outside. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Calycle

1. an outer calyx [n -S]

Medical Definition of Calycle

1. A bud-shaped or cup-shaped structure, resembling the closed calyx of a flower. Synonym: calycle, calyculus. Origin: L. Dim. From G. Kalyx, the cup of a flower (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calycle

calvities calvity calvous calx calxes calycanthus calycanthus family calycanthuses calycate calyceal

calyces calyciform calyciform ending calycinal calycine calycle (current term) calycled calycles calycoid calycular

calyculate calycule calycules calyculi calyculin A calyculus calymmatobacterium calyon calyons calypses

Literary usage of Calycle

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

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"In the former, the young calycle originates with the parental, and is derived partly or entirely from it: in the latter, it is external to it altogether. ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1872)
"... but also communicates with the cavity of the calycle to which it is attached. The lobe bearing the thread-cells extends to the top of the tube; ..."

3. Handbook of Invertebrate Zoology: For Laboratories and Seaside Work by William Keith Brooks (1882)
"C. An older reproductive calycle. with fully-formed medusae. D. View of the lower or oral surface of a young medusa, a few minutes after its escape from the ..."

4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1874)
"Each w them consists of a short stem bearing a single calycle, clear! ... as I have already stated, from the stem *llF porting the calycle between the ..."

5. British Zoophytes: An Introduction to the Hydroida, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa by Arthur Stuart Pennington (1885)
"It is of a dark horn-colour, and has the calycle prolonged into an operculum. ... The calycle is long and tubular, borne on a ringed pedicel, and terminates ..."

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