Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

calyptra

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables: ca-lyp-tra
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In bryophytes, a thin hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.

noun

any cap-like covering of a flower or fruit, such as the operculum over the unopened buds of Eucalyptus flowers

noun

Any of various coverings at the tips of structures, in the terminology of various authors; for example rootcaps and the apical cells of trichomes.

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"(b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλύπτρα (kalúptra, “covering or veiling”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: καλύπτρα

Inflected Forms

calyptras (plural) calyptrae (plural)

Derived Forms

calyptrate calyptriform

Questions

What does calyptra mean?: In bryophytes, a thin hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.
Where does calyptra come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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