cupule

[ kyoo-pyool ]

noun
  1. 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.

  2. Zoology. a small cup-shaped sucker or similar organ or part.

Origin of cupule

1
1820–30; <New Latin cūpula,Late Latin: small tub; see cupola

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cupule

/ (ˈkjuːpjuːl) /


noun
  1. biology a cup-shaped part or structure, such as the cup around the base of an acorn

Origin of cupule

1
C19: from Late Latin cūpula; see cupola

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