scyphus

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noun
  1. 1

    A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.

  2. 2

    (botany) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

  3. 3

    (lichenology) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

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