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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each has a central body, the calyx , rising from a stem like the seed-head of a poppy.
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Flowers are white; after flowering, the fruit is quite covered by the broadened calyx .
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Food grooves in the arms channel the food to the mouth, which lies in the centre of the calyx .
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Gallygaskins A single primrose with a distorted and swollen calyx .
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Pantaloon Rather like a Jackanapes, but with the colour in the calyx running around the edge like a frill.
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Stem, calyx , and arms are all made of calcite plates.
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The five-fold symmetry is often hard to detect in the calyx as a whole, although five food grooves are usually developed.
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The floral examples include a large lotus calyx and two ivy leaves joined by a slight fillet.