Calyptra

Definition: Calyptra

Calyptra

Noun

1. The hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy.

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	Also present, is a--, several layers of cells that envelop the root tip externally. . . a--is an important adaptive device. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: Calyptra

English words defined with "calyptra": calyptrate, Calyptriform ♦ Mitriform. (references)

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Language		Translations for "calyptra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rodhaette (root-cap). (various references)

Dutch		wortelmutsje (root-cap, tegmentum, tubeshield), wortelkapje (root-cap). (various references)

Finnish		juurihuntu (root-cap), juurenhuntu (root-cap). (various references)

French		coiffe (cap, cap rock(1, capping, caul), pilorhize. (various references)

German		Wurzelhaube (root-cap), Kalyptra (root-cap). (various references)

Greek		καλύπτρα ρίζης (root-cap). (various references)

Italian		cuffia radicale (root-cap), caliptra (root-cap), piloriza (root-cap). (various references)

Pig Latin		alyptracay.(various references)

Portuguese		coifa (cap, caul, coif, root-cap, sieve, stove hood), caliptra (root-cap). (various references)

Spanish		pilorriza (root-cap). (various references)

Swedish		rotmössa (root-cap). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pileorrhiza. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "calyptra": calyptras. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "calyptra" (pronounced 'Ca*lyp"tra'): Chittra, Conistra, Contra, Dicentra, Fenestra, Foutra, Mactra, mantra, Mostra, Palestra, Solenogastra, Sutra, Tantra. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: caltrap, cryptal, lactary, playact.
	-2 letters: carpal, paltry, parlay, partly, raptly.
	-3 letters: alary, altar, apart, aptly, artal, carat, clapt, clary, craal, crypt, lyart, party, patly, platy, playa, ratal, talar, typal.
	-4 letters: acta, acyl, alar, arty, aryl, atap, carl, carp, cart, clap, clay, crap, lacy, paca, pact, paly, para, part, paty, plat, play, prat, pray, racy, rapt, raya, tala, talc, tapa, tarp, trap, tray.
	-5 letters: aal, act, ala, alp, alt, apt, arc, art, cap, car, cat, cay, cry, lac, lap, lar, lat, lay, pac, pal, par, pat, pay, ply, pry, pya, rap, rat, ray, rya, tap, tar, try, yap, yar.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-p-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: calyptras, paralytic, placatory.
	+2 letters: archetypal, capitulary, paralytics.
	+3 letters: acropetally, applicatory, capillarity, coplanarity, parfocality, piratically, plantocracy, practicably, practically.
	+4 letters: archetypally, archetypical, cryptanalyst, operatically, particularly, practicality.
	+5 letters: astrophysical, campylobacter, comparability, comparatively, cryptanalyses, cryptanalysis, cryptanalysts, cryptanalytic, impracticably, impractically, paralytically, parasitically, participially, particularity, patriotically, polycarbonate, postcranially, pragmatically, prismatically, puritanically, spectacularly, sympatrically, typographical, ultraphysical.
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