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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the small cup-shaped conceptacle of certain lichens.
- noun A small cist; specifically, a reliquary of the shape of a box or casket.
- noun [capitalized] In zoology: A genus of gastropodous mollusks, of the family Cyclostomidæ.
- noun A genus of reptiles.
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