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Calx vs Calyx - What's the difference?

calx | calyx |

As nouns the difference between calx and calyx

is that calx is the substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston while calyx is a cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney.

calx

English

(wikipedia calx)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (archaic) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston.
  • (Now recognised as being) the oxide left after calcination of a metal.
  • calcium oxide
  • In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

    • calyx

    English

    (wikipedia calyx)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) A cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney.
  • (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, when it is not the same in appearance as the next such whorl (the corolla).
  • (zoology) The crown of a crinoid.