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BLOOD CUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood cup mean?
• BLOOD CUP (noun)
The noun BLOOD CUP has 1 sense:
1. a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
Familiarity information: BLOOD CUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blood cup; fairy cup; Peziza coccinea
Hypernyms ("blood cup" is a kind of...):
cup fungus; discomycete (any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes)
Holonyms ("blood cup" is a member of...):
genus Peziza; Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)
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