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What is a calyx?

What is a calyx? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
  2. (zoology) A cup-like structure, such as in the mammalian kidney.
  3. (zoology) The crown of a crinoid.
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The outer surface of two parts yield numerous mamillate protrusions, which are larger and sparser on the calyx than those on the stalk.
Their perigonium consists of two trimerous whorls of tepals, or conversely of a perianth comprising calyx and corolla.
The polyp lived on top of a tabula in a depression in the top of the coral called the calyx.
The pattern of proximal axes being more aborally inclined than are distal axes is similar to that in C axes of crinoid calyx plates.
In most extant crinoids, primarily the shallow-water ones, there are two body regions, the calyx and the rays.
Aestivation of the calyx is cochlear descending, which is a new character within Ingeae.

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