Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology: Having the surface furnished with depressions formed by the reticulate folding of the skin: specifically applied by Cope to the structure of the hemipenes of various snakes.
- In botany, having bracts which resemble an additional external calyx.
- In zoology, having a calycle.
- Also
calycled .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
calycular
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a calyculus
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Examples
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There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculate) which cover these tender places on the earths surface.
Walking 1914
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