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cu⋅pule

  [kyoo-pyool]
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–noun
1. Botany.
a. a cup-shaped whorl of hardened, cohering bracts, as in the 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.
Origin:
1820–30; < NL cūpula, LL: small tub; see cupola
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cu·pule   (kyōō'pyōōl)   
n.  A small cup-shaped structure or organ, such as the cup at the base of an acorn or one of the suckers on the feet of certain flies.

[Late Latin cūpula, little cask, diminutive of Latin cūpa, tub.]
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