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We get it from the Latin calix, icis (calix, calikis "cup"), which took it from the Greek 954; 965; 955; 953; 958; ( kylix "cup" ) . 1o_ Cup or glass that in the Christian liturgies contains the wine to be consecrated, representing the Blood of Christ. 2nd_ By associations in the New Testament with the suffering of Jesus, betrayal, and the sins of Babylon, it is also said of an affliction, a bad time. 3o_ In biology is the part of an organism that is shaped like a cup, like the modified leaves that support the petals of the flowers.

  

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