词根词缀:calci-, calc-, calcane-, calcio-, calco-, calcar-, calx
【来源及含义】Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread [derived from calx, calcis, limestone, lime, pebble; from Greek words halix and psephos meaning "small stone, pebble"]
【同源单词】a capite ad calcem, acalculia, astragalocalcanean, calcaneal, calcanean, calcaneitis
词根词缀:calyc-, calyci-, calyx-
【来源及含义】Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud"
【同源单词】calicectomy, calycanthemous, calyces, calyciflorous, calyciform, calycine