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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoology, same as calycle, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See campanularian.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology any cup-shaped depression
  • noun botany, zoology a calyculus

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