SCYPHUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.


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