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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of bracts subtending and resembling a calyx, as in the carnation and hibiscus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the outer accessory calyx in plants with two calyces, formed either of sepals or bracts, as in mallow and potentilla.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A group of
bracts resembling acalyx
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
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Examples
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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 Maxwell T. Masters
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= -- 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 Maxwell T. Masters
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