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ACETABULUM

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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

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vinegar
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cup, an
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ancient
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Roman
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vessel, used as a liquid measure (equal to about
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half a gill); it is also a word used technically in
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zoology, by
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analogy for certain cup-shaped parts, e.g. the suckers of a mollusc, the socket of the thigh-
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bone, &c.; and in
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botany for the receptacle of
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Fungi .

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