Cupule (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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. a small cup-shaped sucker or similar organ or part.
noun
  1. a cup-shaped part or structure, such as the cup around the base of an acorn
Cupule (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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