Crossword-Solution: SCYPHUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scyphus | n. | A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk. |
| Scyphus | n. | The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers. |
| Scyphus | n. | A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen. |
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| ancient Greek two-handled drinking cup | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with SCYPHUS (3)
Polla, potenta, tribon, baculus, scyphus: arcta supellex Haec fuerant Cinici, sed putat hanc nimiam: Namque cavis manibus cernens potare bubulcum, Cur, scyphe, te, dixit, gusto supervacuum? ENGLISHED.
These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough-- Nec bella fuerunt, Faginus astabat dum Scyphus ante dapes-- You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Have virtue and the people will be virtuous." If Thoreau had made the first sentence read: "If all men were like me and were to live as simply," etc., everyone would agree with him.
SCYPHUS, s[=i]f'us, _n._ in Greek antiquities, a large drinking-cup: (_bot._) a cup-shaped appendage to a flower.--_adj._ SCYPH'IFORM.