Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A series of bracts subtending and resembling a calyx, as in the carnation and hibiscus.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the outer accessory calyx in plants with two calyces, formed either of sepals or bracts, as in mallow and potentilla.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
Examples
“A very singular illustration of this is figured by Trattinick, [351], in which the leaves, epicalyx, sepals, and petals, were all provided with tubular spurs.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“= -- The true calyx is very seldom affected in this manner, unless such organs as the epicalyx of mallows,”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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