NOUN
- cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
- a sucker on the feet of certain flies
How To Use cupule In A Sentence
- Each girl ground a cupule at the completion of the rite and families had their own special rock faces where this was done. Cupules and Geophagy
- Lyginopterids bore cupules, which can be described as tulip shaped structures.
- Thus, the cupule is a simple uniaxial structure.
- The internodes have invaginations that are termed cupules.
- Particle capture was by cilia located in the cupules.
- [Dr. Johnson again.] acorn ... the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
- As the ovules developed, they eventually abscised and fell out, leaving the cupules empty.
- The internodes have invaginations that are termed cupules.
- In addition to a terminal flower there may be several smaller lateral flowers in the axil of cupular bracts, each surrounded by its own small cupule.
- Cohesion of the bracts by their edges, so as to form a tubular involucre, or by their surfaces, so as to form a cupule, is not of uncommon occurrence, under natural conditions, and may be met with in plants which ordinarily do not exhibit this appearance. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
