scyphus

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In Greek antiquity, a large drinking-cup shaped like the kylix, and, like it, with two handles not extending above the rim, but without a foot.
• noun In botany:
• noun A cup-shaped appendage to a flower, etc., as the crown of the narcissus.
• noun In lichens, a cup-like dilatation of the podetium or stalk-like elongation of the thallus, bearing shields upon its margin.
• noun Also scypha.

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

• noun (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
• noun The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
• noun A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.

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• noun an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base