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Noun(1) (botany(2) (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(3) usually green [also: calyces (pl)](4) whorl on flower

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(1) You seem to be having a stone in the lower calyx of the right kidney.(2) In most extant crinoids, primarily the shallow-water ones, there are two body regions, the calyx and the rays.(3) The polyp lived on top of a tabula in a depression in the top of the coral called the calyx .(4) The characters that make this species distinct from the members of the C. sampsoni clade are primarily the thin-plated calyx and basal plates, which are higher than wide.(5) The pattern of proximal axes being more aborally inclined than are distal axes is similar to that in C axes of crinoid calyx plates.(6) 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.(7) The flower has a tubular calyx with four ovate lobes and a corolla with four overlapping petals.(8) Similar to the color traits, plant prickles were also evaluated for individual organs including stem, leaf, and flower and fruit calyxes .(9) The renal pelvis, calyces , and renal vein were grossly uninvolved.(10) The major calyces unite to form the renal pelvis which is the expanded upper end of the ureter.(11) The base and sides are surrounded by cortical tissue, and the apex protrudes into the renal calyces .(12) Although very few crinoid calyxes were encountered in the samples, columnals were ubiquitous and provided the basis for identification of crinoid genera.(13) In this case, the calyces are compressed by the markedly distended renal pelvis.(14) Unlike with other bulb flowers, the calyxes of amaryllises do not open quickly, so consider this when using them in flower arrangements for certain occasions.(15) The real attraction, though, is the dramatic calyxes that remain after the small flower petals fall.(16) He gave special attention to the pubescence of the leaves and of the calyces .