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Yes. The word calyx is a Scrabble US word. The word calyx is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (1 found)

CALYX,

4-letter words (4 found)

ACYL,CALX,CLAY,LACY,

3-letter words (6 found)

CAL,CAY,CLY,LAC,LAX,LAY,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AX,AY,LA,YA,

You can make 16 words from calyx according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of calyx

calyx

English

Alternative forms

  • calix

Etymology

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæ.lɪks/, /ˈkeɪ.lɪks/
  • Rhymes: -ælɪks

Noun

calyx (plural calyces or calyxes)

  1. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
    Meronym: sepal
  2. (zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.
    1. A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
    2. The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
    3. A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
    4. A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.

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Further reading

  • calyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • calyx (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • calyx (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “calyx”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.lyks]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.liks]
  • Homophone: calix (pronunciations of ⟨y⟩ as /i/)

Noun

calyx m (genitive calycis); third declension

  1. The bud, cup, or calyx of a flower or nut.
  2. A plant of two kinds, resembling the arum, perhaps the monk's hood.
  3. (by extension) The shell of fruits, pericarp.
  4. (by extension) An eggshell.
  5. A fitting on a Roman pipe

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • calyculus

Descendants

  • → English: calyx
  • → Galician: cáliz
  • → Italian: calice
  • → Portuguese: cálice
  • → Spanish: cáliz

See also

  • calix

References

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20160925020435/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/calyx
  • https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/calyx
  • “calyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • calyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org