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Definition of Cyathium
1. Noun. One of the specialised pseudanthia ("false flowers") forming the inflorescence of euphorbias. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyathium
1. the flower of the spurge plant [n CYATHIA]
Medical Definition of Cyathium
1. An inflorescence of unisexual flowers surrounded by inwardly-rolled bracts. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyathium
Literary usage of Cyathium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A cyathium without ... Irt the central cyathium 1. are shown the details of the
arrangement of the male flowers in ..."
2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"EUPHORBIA L. cyathium campanulate, 4 to 5 lobed, the lobes entire or slit, often
bidden by ... Female flowers: single from the middle of the cyathium, ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"The cyathium consists of a tubular involucre (Fig. ... That the cyathium is an
inflorescence and not a single flower is most clearly visible in the genus ..."
4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1898)
"They enclose the deep, bowl- shaped cyathium, the central member of a ...
cyathium 6 mm. high; lobes scarcely 2 mm.; gland 2-2-5 mm. high. ..."
5. The Weeds of New South Wales, Pt. I- by Joseph Henry Maiden (1920)
"In figures 1 and 2 we have a peculiar inflorescence which bears the technical
name of cyathium, and which looks like a simple flower, but it consists of one ..."
6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"OFFICIAL. with these are four nectar-secreting glands, the presence of which
increases the likeness between the cyathium and a flower. ..."
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