- A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of
about one eighth of a pint, etc. - The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. - The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at
its articulation with the body. - A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related
animals. - The large posterior sucker of the leeches. - One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
- Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which
receives the head of the thigh bone. - Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid
ligament, or notch.
- A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which
arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named
because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the
legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.