In botany, describing flowers that lack a calyx or have a reduced calyx; naked-flowered.
From Greek gymnos (naked) + -ous (having the quality of). The botanical term emerged to describe flowers without protective sepals, using the metaphor of nakedness.
Botanists borrowed the 'naked' concept from ancient Greek athletics to describe flowers—a beautiful example of how scientific terminology recycles cultural concepts in new ways.
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