calyx

Example Sentences

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So you slice off the stem end just below the calyx, the little cap.

From Salon • May 13, 2023

Then he’ll fabricate the sundry plant forms — the buds, the flower, the calyx — for days on end.

From New York Times • May 8, 2018

"Here we have this discovery of these incredibly rare, delicate fossils - here you have a berry surrounded by this papery calyx - it's almost unheard of that such a thing could be fossilised."

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2017

Pretty, blush-pink flowers bloom on red wine-stemmed bushes with trident leaves, but it’s not the delicate petals that you want, but the outer sepals that form the protective, pointy calyx around the flower bud.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2016

The stem, calyx, rose and leaves were now one and seemed to have grown so.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith