Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and zoology, a corrupt form of
calyces , plural ofcalyx (which see).
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Examples
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Such goblets were sometimes known as calices literati.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their back-ground, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
Nature 2006
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Minister uetuli puer Falerni inger mi calices amariores, ut lex Postumiae iubet magistrae ebrioso acino ebriosioris.
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He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fete-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.
Diamonds and Pearls 1969
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Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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B, apices, or papillæ, of the pyramids, surrounded by subdivisions of the pelvis known as cups or calices;
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The closest parallel for the poetic singular cited by _OLD densus_ 3a is Martial IX lxxxvii 1-2 'Septem post calices Opimiani/_denso_ cum iaceam triente [19] blaesus'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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