calicle

calicle
/kal"i keuhl/, n.
1. a cuplike depression or formation, as in corals.
2. Bot., Zool. calyculus.
[1840-50; < L caliculus small cup, equiv. to calic- (s. of calix; see CALIX) cup + -ulus -ULE]

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