Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of a cup or drinking-glass a little widened at the top.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the form of a
cup , a littlewidened at the top.
Etymologies
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Latin cyathus a cup (Ancient Greek) -form: compare French cyathiforme.
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Examples
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When it grows on the upper side of logs the pileus is sometimes regular and funnel-shaped (cyathiform), but it is often irregular and produced on one side, especially if it grows on the side of the substratum.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
whichbe commented on the word cyathiform
Cup-shaped.
May 16, 2008