Calicle: alternatives and connections

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, a…

a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…

a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)

A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.

A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rug…

That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.

The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

(embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.