Calycle
Zoology. Also, caliculus. a structure shaped like a cup.
Botany. a set of bracts resembling an outer calyx.
Historical Examples
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
noun
(zoology) a cup-shaped structure, as in the coral skeleton
(botany) another name for epicalyx
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