Scyphus

[saifәs]

(noun.) an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base.

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

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

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

Edited by Adrian

n. in Greek antiquities a large drinking-cup: (bot.) a cup-shaped appendage to a flower.—adj. Scyph′iform.

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