| 单词 | calycle |
| 释义 | calycle (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY calycle: calycles USAGE EXAMPLESThese calycles or bells, as they are called, assume a great variety of shapes,—elliptical, round, pear-shaped, or ringed like the Clytia. Agassiz, Alexander, Seaside Studies in Natural History...(2011) Young Oceania just escaped from its reproductive calycle; magnified. Agassiz, Alexander, Seaside Studies in Natural History...(2011) This protecting calycle is wanting round the heads of the Tubularians, though their stems are surrounded by a sheath. Agassiz, Alexander, Seaside Studies in Natural History...(2011) 1n a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) Syn|Hypo|Hyper caliculus, calyculus eyecup, optic cup (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 2n a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus Syn|Hyper calyculus, epicalyx, false calyx bract a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence |
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