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The covering of a flower. See Flower.

The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.

One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

hich is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

A cup. See Calyx.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

Having the form or appearance of a calyx.

Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.

A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.