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☞ The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; offspring + E. calyx, ] (Zool.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid. [ 1913 Webster ]
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