Calyx: Definition and part of speech

Calyx

  1. n. A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
  2. n. The covering of a flower. See Flower.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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