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caliculus

ca·li·cu·lus

uncommon us

noun

1.

a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)

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From Latin caliculus, diminutive of calix. By surface analysis, calic- + -ulus.

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