Bot. [mod.L., f. Gr. κάλυκ- CALYX + ἄνθος flower.] A North American genus of shrubs; esp. Calycanthus floridus or Carolina Allspice.
1864. Miss Yonge, Trial, I. 190. Come and reach me down some calycanthus out of the greenhouse.
1884. Stevenson, Silver. Squatt., 267. Cal[y]canthus crept, like a hardy weed, all over our rough parlor.
