cupule
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pyul noun
1.
Botany.
a.
a cup-shaped whorl of hardened, cohering bracts, as in the acorn. See illus. under acorn.
b.
a cup-shaped outgrowth of the thallus of certain liverworts.
c.
the apothecium of a cup fungus.
2.
Zoology. a small cup-shaped sucker or similar organ or part.
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| —n | |
| biology a cup-shaped part or structure, such as the cup around the base of an acorn | |
| [C19: from Late Latin cūpula; see | |
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Cupule
is always a great word to know.
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| invertebrate phylum with characteristic stinging structures |
| phylum of radially symmetrical coelomate marine invertabrates |
Example sentences
Many of the cupule features are located under the thick growth of western chokecherry that covers the site.
Interspersed between them are other smaller middens and a large cupule boulder.
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