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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

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