An ancient Greek basket or basket-shaped vessel, also used in botanical terms to describe basket-like flower or plant structures.
Direct from Greek 'kalathos,' a common object in ancient Greek daily life; the term was adopted by botanists to describe similarly shaped plant organs.
The same word that described a Greek baker's basket now describes the reproductive structures of tropical plants—language just recycles useful descriptions across centuries!
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