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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ACETABULUM , the Latin word for a See also:

VINEGAR

vinegar See also:

CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup, an See also:

ancient See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, used as a liquid measure (equal to about See also:

HALF

half a gill); it is also a word used technically in See also:

ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology, by See also:

ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy for certain cup-shaped parts, e.g. the suckers of a mollusc, the socket of the thigh-See also:

bone, &c.; and in See also:

BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany for the receptacle of See also:

FUNGI (p1. of Lat. fungus, a mushroom)

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