calix

[ key-liks, kal-iks ]

/ ˈkeɪ lɪks, ˈkæl ɪks /

cup.

Origin of calix

From Latin; see origin at chalice

I have cried 'Pater mi, si possibile est, transeat a me calix iste!'

The Firebrand |S. R. Crockett
The capsule is sometimes shorter and sometimes longer than the calix, on the same plant, in Andrés specimens.

Origin of Cultivated Plants |Alphonse De Candolle
The lurid colouring of the young leaves is recalled in the flower-stems and calix, and enhances the colour effect of the whole.

Wood and Garden |Gertrude Jekyll
Instead of suak, the women used here the calix of a flower, called furai, for staining their teeth with a deep amber colour.

Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 |James Richardson

And if we wish to penetrate the secret we must not forget the Hebrew psalmist, with his calix meus inebrians quam prclarus est.

Hieroglyphics |Arthur Machen

calix

/ (ˈkeɪlɪks, ˈkæ-) /

a cup; chalice

C18: from Latin: chalice

calix

A flower-shaped or funnel-shaped structure.

Any of the branches or recesses of the pelvis of the kidney into which the orifices of the malpighian renal pyramids project.