calyx

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (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

   The green calyx protected the flower before it opened.

Simplified etymology

Calix, the late 17th-century botanical term, comes from Latin calix, “cup.” The same Latin word is the source of chalice.

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

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