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Calyx (botany), the collective name for the sepals of a flower; Calyce, a genus of beetles; Calyx, a genus of sea sponges; Calyx of Held, a large synapse in the auditory brainstem structure; Eubela calyx, species of sea snail; Renal calyx, a chamber in the kidney that surrounds the apex of the renal pyramids
Either a minor calyx in the kidney, a conglomeration of two or three minor calyces to form a major calyx, or the Calyx of Held, a particularly large synapse in the mammalian auditory central nervous system, named by H. Held in his 1893 article Die centrale Gehörleitung, [3] due to its flower-petal-like shape.
calyx. pl. calyces. Collective term for the sepal s of one flower; the outer whorl of a flower, usually green. Compare corolla. calyx tube A tube formed by the fusion of the sepals (calyx), at least at the base. cambium Tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth. campanulate Bell-shaped. camptodromous
The name samba comes from inserting two vowels into the name of the standard protocol that Microsoft Windows network file system use, named Server Message Block (SMB). The author searched a dictionary using grep for words containing S M and B in that order; the only matches were Samba and Salmonberry.
The large calyx of the medlar fruit is the source of its vulgar nicknames. The term sepalum was coined by Noël Martin Joseph de Necker in 1790, and derived from Ancient Greek σκέπη (sképē) 'covering'. [5] [6] Collectively, the sepals are called the calyx (plural: calyces), [7] the outermost whorl of parts that form a flower
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It was the most popular English dictionary of the eighteenth century until the publication of Samuel Johnson's massive dictionary in 1755. As an indicator of its popularity, the dictionary reached its 20th edition in 1763 [1] and its 27th edition in 1794. [2] Its last edition (30th) was in 1802. It was a little over 900 pages long.