urceole

plural urceoles

1. A vessel for water or washing the hands in Roman Catholicism.

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   He was next divested of the alb or surplice, and also of the maniple (otherwise called the fanon or fannel), a kind of scarf worn on the left wrist, to denote his degradation from the order of sub-deaconship; after that he surrendered, as acolyte, the candlestick, taper, and small pitcher called urceole; as exorcist, the book of exorcisms; as reader, the lectionary or book of daily lessons; and, as sexton, the surplice of that office and the key of the church-door.

   1848, George Lillie Craik, The Pictorial History of England, page 135

2. biologyA disc in the center of a flower, often resembling a thickening of the corolla, which holds the carpels.

   Stamineal urceole 10-15-toothed, with 5-10 of the teeth obtuse and sterile, and the 5 remaining ones alternate and monantherous.

   1837, James Macfadyen, The Flora of Jamaica, page 101

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   The common Lady's Mantle is now considered to include 10 species based chiefly on the distribution of hairiness, the shape of the leaf and the fruit or urceole.

   1961, Roger William Butcher, A New Illustrated British Flora, page 686

   The numerous structures lying on the floor of the ovarian cavity have been interpreted in the past as carpels (Stapf, 1894; Baehni, 1937, 1938) or as female flowers (Hutchinson, 1926) while the urceole has been regarded as an overdeveloped "disc" or receptacle (Stapf, l.e.), a receptacle resembling a thick corolla (Hutchinson, l.e) and corolla (Baehni, l.c).

   1968, The Journal of Biological Sciences - Volume 11, Issues 1-2, page 3