caliculus

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscalyculuscalycle

   Broaderstructure

   Narroweroptic cup

Other forms of caliculus

plural

caliculuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caliculus

What does caliculus mean?

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

How many syllables are in caliculus?

caliculus has 4 syllables: ca-li-cu-lus. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for caliculus?

Close synonyms include calyculus, calycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caliculus a common word?

caliculus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.