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Definition of Calyptrate
1. Adjective. Having calypters.
2. Adjective. Having a calyptra.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calyptrate
Literary usage of Calyptrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1908)
"A study of the calyptrate Muscidae gives us both aspects of the economic question.
The calyptrate Muscidae are characterized by the presence of a squama at ..."
2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1913)
"If the halteres are covered by a scale (squama) we have calyptrate ... are large
enough in the calyptrate species to even conceal the halteres when the fly ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Corolla calyptrate. Berries size of pea.—Resembles E. polyantha, Wight, in its
inflorescence. 106. E. Jambolana, Lam. Diet. iii. ..."
4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1864)
"The calyptrate corolla had previously been noticed in some of the older genera
of the Order, but the polyandrous stamens were certainly quite a new feature ..."
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