Definitions for cupules

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cupules cu·pule

Spelling: [kyoo-pyool]

IPA: /ˈkyu pyul/

Cupules is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in cupules (celpsuu).

Definitions for cupules

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 cupules

1820-30; New Latin cūpula, Late Latin: small tub; see cupola

Examples for cupules

Among the specimens of the last class, one sort, the cupule, is extremely widespread.

In the Chestnut the cupule forms the bur; in the Hazel, a leafy husk.

The latter are in clusters of a few only, and each separate flower is enclosed in a cupule of overlapping scales.

These cylindrical muscles with their cupule and tendon look like so many syringes.

Here the involucre, in the form of a cup at the base, is called the cupule.