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Definition of Cupule
1. Noun. Cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn.
2. Noun. A sucker on the feet of certain flies.
Definition of Cupule
1. n. A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
Definition of Cupule
1. Noun. Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cupule
1. a cup-shaped anatomical structure [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cupule
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupule
Literary usage of Cupule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1885)
"... liverworts come after them when they die or not; no little disks grow on them
to make seed and sow themselves; but whether these disks FIG. 44.— cupule ..."
2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... of many imbricate scales, which in fruit become an indurated cup (cupule),
surrounding the base of the ovoid or roundish 1-seeded nut or acorn. ..."
3. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"1—3 time« as many as the sepals, inserted into their bases, [each Fr. A bony or
coriaceous nut. more or less enclosed in the cupule. Stia. ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The presence of a woody cupule is characteristic of many ... Ovary with three,
rarely with more loculi ; cupule present. ..."
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