scyphus

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In Greek antiquity, a large drinking-cup shaped like the kylix, and, like it, with two handles not extending above the rim, but without a foot.
2. n. In botany:
3. n. A cup-shaped appendage to a flower, etc., as the crown of the narcissus.
4. n. In lichens, a cup-like dilatation of the podetium or stalk-like elongation of the thallus, bearing shields upon its margin.
5. n. Also scypha.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Antiq.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base