a. [f. L. calyc-em (calyx) + -INE.] Of or belonging to the calyx; resembling a calyx.
1. Bot.
1816. Colebrooke, Asiat. Res., XII. 539. Embraced at the base by the calycine hemispherical cup.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 218. The symmetry of the stamens, corolline and calycine segments.
1861. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 4), 239. Calycine sepals.
2. Biol. and Phys. (See CALYX 2.)
1872. H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 133. Sphæronites has each calycine plate perforated by two pores.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 96. A calycine investment for the whole animal.
