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What is a calyx?

What is a calyx? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
  2. (zoology) A cup-like structure, such as in the mammalian kidney.
  3. (zoology) The crown of a crinoid.
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As plants reached flowering maturity, the gender was noted and flower measurements were taken on petal limb, petal claw and calyx diameter.
The pattern of proximal axes being more aborally inclined than are distal axes is similar to that in C axes of crinoid calyx plates.
The calyx, the subtending bracts and the two prophylls bear groups of extrafloral nectaries.
The polyp lived on top of a tabula in a depression in the top of the coral called the calyx.
In unstalked crinoids, the cirri are located on the end of the calyx opposite the mouth, and are used by the animal to grasp the substratum.
Aestivation of the calyx is cochlear descending, which is a new character within Ingeae.

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