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calicle

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cal⋅i⋅cle

  [kal-i-kuhl]
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–noun
1. a cuplike depression or formation, as in corals.
2. Botany, Zoology. calyculus.
Origin:
1840–50; < L caliculus small cup, equiv. to calic- (s. of calix; see calix ) cup + -ulus -ule
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