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floral cup

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floral cup  
n.  A tubular or cup-shaped structure of a flower, bearing on its rim the sepals, petals, and stamens.
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floral cup

noun
the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) [syn: hypanthium
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