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What is a calyculus?

What is a calyculus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) any cup-shaped structure.
  2. (botany) (Britain) A group of bracts resembling an outer calyx.
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The colors are obscure, but the striations on the calyculus are violet-tinted, and the reds perhaps predominate elsewhere.
This common species is well marked both by its color and by the delicate attachment of the capillitium to the calyculus.
The obconic calyculus is always represented in the outline if not in definite structure.
The well-defined calyculus is narrowed below and eroded or denticulate above.
The outer membrane of the calyculus is by no means always absent.
It differs from all other American forms, so far described, in the peculiar development of the calyculus.

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