saucer : Idioms & Phrases

• noun European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers
  Campanula medium; Canterbury bell.
  

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• noun an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
  unidentified flying object; UFO.
  

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• a type of Unidentified Flying Object, having a biconvex discoid shape; such objects are occasionally reported to have been sighted, but no example of one has been reliably shown to exist. They are believed by ufologists to originate in outer space, but they are generally presumed to be misinterpretations of ordinary phenomena, illusions or imaginary objects. Fraudulent photographs purporting to show flying saucers are published from time to time.

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• a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

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• (Zoöl.), the mass of egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any mollusk of the genus Natica and allied genera. It has the shape of a bottomless saucer, and is coated with fine sand; called also sand collar.

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• noun large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers; native to Asia; prized as an ornamental in eastern North America
  Chinese magnolia; Magnolia soulangiana.
  

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• adjective satellite having large round wide-open eyes
  round-eyed.
  

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• adjective satellite having a concave shape like a saucer
  

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Tea"-sau`cer noun

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1. A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

Webster 1913