Botanical term for the green leafy part at the top of a fruit such as a persimmon or tomato. In everyday language, へた is the usual word.
You can't eat the calyx of a persimmon.
Please remove the calyx from the tomato before cutting it.
Rare kanji form; the kana spelling へた is strongly preferred in modern writing.
An old native word of uncertain origin, conventionally written 蔕.