FLORAL CUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floral cup mean? 

• FLORAL CUP (noun)
  The noun FLORAL CUP has 1 sense:

1. the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)

  Familiarity information: FLORAL CUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLORAL CUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calyx tube; floral cup; hypanthium

Hypernyms ("floral cup" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)