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Original entry ↗The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. · A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes. · The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians. · A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.
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