scyphus

A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skúphos).

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