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Definition of Calyptras
1. calyptra [n] - See also: calyptra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calyptras
Literary usage of Calyptras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"The calyptras are less densely hairy than those of ... For identifying species,
especially with a hand-lens, perfect calyptras are of the greatest value and ..."
2. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"This structure is easily observed in those calyptras of the Orthotricha which
are naked or destitute of hair; not so easily in 0. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... of that savant with his calyptras, and which I place at the head of the Noctus,
in order to proceed thence to ..."
4. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... of these I made small bundles, putting alternate layers of Mosses and Hepaticae
so that there might be no confusion of fallen lids and calyptras, ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1919)
"... second and third extending from near base to apex, fourth tergite with the
spots almost obsolete; legs black; wings clear, veins black; calyptras white; ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"Small or very large mosses, mostly with rigid acute leaves, large, more or less
angular, asymmetric capsules, and calyptras mostly covered with hair ..."
7. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"... capsule and non- crisped leaves distinguish them at once. One species (O.
anomalum) grows on rocks. The calyptras are less densely hairy than those of ..."
8. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"... the central portion of it so that an actual sac arises, upon whose summit the
sterile archegonia and the very slightly developed calyptras are found 1. ..."
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