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cupule
[ kyoo-pyool ]
noun
- Botany.
- a cup-shaped whorl of hardened, cohering bracts, as in the acorn.
- a cup-shaped outgrowth of the thallus of certain liverworts.
- the apothecium of a cup fungus.
- Zoology. a small cup-shaped sucker or similar organ or part.
cupule
/ ˈkjuːpjuːl /
noun
- biology a cup-shaped part or structure, such as the cup around the base of an acorn
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cupule1
C19: from Late Latin cūpula; see cupola
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Example Sentences
Among the specimens of the last class, one sort, the cupule, is extremely widespread.
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Bracts forming a fleshy or hard cupule which envelops the one to several fruits.
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The latter are in clusters of a few only, and each separate flower is enclosed in a cupule of overlapping scales.
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In the Chestnut the cupule forms the bur; in the Hazel, a leafy husk.
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Here the involucre, in the form of a cup at the base, is called the Cupule.
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