calyx

/'keiliks/

BNC频率: 43927

现代语料频率: 34327

中文翻译

n. 花萼

[医] 盏, [花]萼

英文解释

n. (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green

词态变化

复数形式:calyxes

常见例句

as, an acetabuliform calyx.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx

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

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx

n the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx