Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, goblet-shaped, as the fructification of some lichens. Also scyphose.
  • In zoology, boat-shaped; scaphoid; navicular.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Cup-shaped.

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  • adjective botany Shaped like a cup.

Etymologies

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Latin scyphus a cup + -form.

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