Usage examples "calyx":
- Once a glistening little sprite, quite undaunted by the size of an audience that sat almost breathless enjoying his beauty, thrust his bill into one calyx after another on a long sprig of honeysuckle held in the hand. - "Bird-Neighbors", Blanchan, Neltje.
- This plant grows commonly at the sides of our pools, and in wet ditches, bearing numerous small yellow flowers, with petals scarcely longer than the calyx. - "Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure", William Thomas Fernie.
- There was a little green star for a calyx; above this, a little white star with its prongs outstretched- tiny arms to hold up the pink- flecked chalice for the rain and dew. - "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come", John Fox.
