Scyphus

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

2. The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

3. A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.