An ancient Greek drinking cup with a wide mouth and pedestal base, or any cup-shaped structure in biology and geology.
From Greek kyathos, a word so old and common it appears in Homer's works; adopted into Latin and preserved in modern scientific terminology for its descriptive value in anatomy and paleontology.
The cyathus is so culturally important to ancient Greece that it appears in myths, poetry, and archaeological digs worldwide—but scientists loved the word so much they kept using it for modern discoveries!
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