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CALICULUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does caliculus mean?
• CALICULUS (noun)
The noun CALICULUS has 1 sense:
1. a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)
Familiarity information: CALICULUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("caliculus" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caliculus"):
eyecup; optic cup ((embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina)
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