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Calyptra
Meaning
Noun
●
In Botany:
In
bryophytes
, a
thin
,
hood
of
tissue
that
forms
from the
archegonium
and
covers
the
developing
sporophyte
and is
shed
as it ripens.
●
In Botany:
any
cap-like
covering
of a
flower
or
fruit
, such as the
operculum
over the
unopened
buds
of Eucalyptus
flower
s
●
In Botany:
Any of various
coverings
at the
tips
of
structures
, in the
terminology
of various
authors
;
for example
rootcaps
and the
apical
cells of trichomes.
●
In Entomology:
In
flies
such as the
housefly
, Musca, in the
taxonomic
order Diptera,
zoological
section
Schizophora,
subsection
Calyptrata, the
calyptra
is a
membranous
rearward
extension
of the
forewing
; it
covers
the haltere.
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