1) Plant part 2) Plant structure
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Calyptra is a scientific term used in botany. It describes a feature in plant morphology. ==Bryophytes== In bryophytes, the calyptra (plural calyptrae) is an enlarged archegonial venter that protects the capsule containing the embryonic sporophyte. The calyptra is usually lost before the spores are released from the capsule. The shape of the calyp...
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[fungus] Calyptra is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis). == See also == ...
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[moth] The genus Calyptra is a group of moths in subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae. They are a member of the Calpini tribe. whose precise circumscription is uncertain but includes a number of other fruit-piercing or eye-frequenting genera currently classified in Calpinae. The common name of many of these species, vampire moth, refe...
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a hood or lid; see operculum.
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hooded or lidded
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• (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
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(from the article `bryophyte`) ...remains in the archegonium and undergoes many mitotic cell divisions to produce an embryonic sporophyte. The lower cells of the archegonium also ... ...by apical cap (operculum); peristome teeth usually surrounding the sporangium mouth and influencing spore release; columella usually present, ... [2 ...
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In mosses, a cap-like structure covering or partly covering the capsule and derived from the neck of the archegonium, in a flower, a cap covering the stamens and carpels in the bud and formed by fusion or cohesion of perianth parts. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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Ca·lyp'tra (kȧ*lĭp'trȧ)
noun [ New Latin , from Greek
kaly`ptra a covering for the head, from
kaly`ptein to cover.]
(Botany) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which conta...
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A hood or lid; particularly the hood or cap of the capsule of a moss.
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The covering of an emerging grape flower.
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The calyptra is the hood of the theca or capsule of mosses. The same name is given to any hood-like body connected with the organs of fructification in flowering plants.
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n] - the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy
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noun the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy
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