Usually means: Outer whorl of flower parts.
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  1. calyxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. calyxes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calyxes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. calyxes: Vocabulary.com
  5. calyxes: Wordnik
  6. calyxes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. calyxes: Wiktionary
  8. calyxes: Dictionary.com
  9. Calyxes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Calyxes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. calyxes: FreeDictionary.org
  12. calyxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. calyxes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. calyxes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. calyxes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See calyx as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (calyx)

noun:  (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
noun:  (zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.
noun:  A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
noun:  The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
noun:  A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
noun:  A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.
▸ Also see calyx


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