A.covering, used only of flowers and fruits:
1. seed-vessel, husk, shell or pod, of the water-lily, Hdt.2.92; of rice, Id.3.100; of wheat, πρὶν ἂν ἐν τῇ κάλυκι γένηται [ἡ στάχυς] Thphr.HP8.2.4, cf. 8.4.3; κάλυκος ἐν λοχεύμασι, i.e. when the fruit is setting, A.Ag. 1392, cf. S.OT25, Ar.Av.1065 (lyr.).
2. cup or calyx of a flower, “ἀνεμωνῶν κάλυξι . . ἠριναῖς” Cratin.98; “κισσοῖο καλύκεσσι” Theoc.3.23; “ὅσα ἐν κάλυκι ἀνθεῖ” Arist.HA554a12; [φύλλοις] “τοῖς τῶν ῥόδων ὅταν ἐν κάλυξιν ὦσι” Thphr.HP4.10.3; ῥόδου κ. ibid.; so in Poets, rosebud, h.Cer.427, AP12.8 (Strato), etc.: metaph., “σταθερὰ . . κ. νεαρᾶς ἥβης” Ar.Fr.467.
II. in pl., women's ornaments, perh. ear-rings shaped like flower cups, Il.18.401 (other expl. in Sch.), cf. h.Ven. 87.
III. = ἄγχουσα, Dsc.4.23.