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adj. - Of or relating to or resembling the outer set of floral leaves making up the external part of the flower and consisting of separate or fused sepals that are usually green and foliaceous but often colored like the corolla

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  • The lower line of figures represents the calycine ribs, the middle row shows how each of these ribs is divided at the vascular rim, and the uppermost row shows their...
  • Supposing this view to be correct, the inner calyx-like whorl might be considered either as a repetition of the calycine whorl, or it might be inferred that the corolla...
  • Botanical Society of France, 'p. 73, says that when the case is one of prolification the lower fruit is larger and is formed of a fleshy mass; moreover, the line of demarcation...
  • From this it will be seen that six of the calycine ribs divide into three branches, one prolonged upwards as a lateral or median rib into the carpellary leaf, the other...
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