Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a form of vase with a long handle, used especially for dipping, as for taking wine from the crater to pour into the oinochoë or directly into the cup. It was often made in the form of a ladle.
- noun An ancient liquid measure, equivalent to /12 of a xestes, or ⅙ of a cotyle.
- noun In botany, a name sometimes given to a small conical or cup-shaped organ or cavity, as one of the receptacles on the frond of Marchantia.
- noun [cap.] A genus of fungi belonging to the Nidulariacei.
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Examples
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Tonight Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo-cyathus.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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To-night Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo-cyathus -- the trouble is one cannot imagine where the stone comes from; it is evidently rare, as few specimens occur in the moraine.
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904
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_Vina Opimia_ is best; but because one drinks a _cyathus_ [97] of that, why should he forego a good nil of
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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To-night Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo-cyathus -- the trouble is one cannot imagine where the stone comes from; it is evidently rare, as few specimens occur in the moraine.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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Maguire, "says he," valce desidhero, certiorem fieri de significatione istius verbi _eversor_ quo jam jam usus es "-- (well, surely I _am_ the boy for the Latin!)" _Eversor_, id est cyathus, "says his Riv'rence," nam apud nos
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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