cuppedadj.
/kʌpt/ 1. Formed or hollowed out like a cup, cup-shaped.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object
camois1664
pouch-likea1676
scaphoidal1681
spoon-likea1686
umbilicated1693
umbilicate1698
saucer-shaped1753
boat-shaped1760
pouchy1786
cupped1796
urn-shaped1796
naviform1816
spoon-shaped1817
urn-like1826
vase-shaped1832
bag-shaped1836
basin-like1836
trough-like1839
urceiform1840
vase-like1840
saucered1847
bag-like1849
sac-like1849
pouch-shaped1854
basin-shaped1859
trough-shaped1871
bucketed1886
spooned1890
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 291 [Daucus maritimus] Umbels white, convex, not cupped when in seed.
1817 J. Keats Sleep & Poetry 255 Nibble the little cupped flowers.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 419/2 The buffed layer [in blood] sometimes assumes a cupped form.
1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 233 Instruments with cupped mouth~pieces.
1882 The Garden 30 Sept. 289/1 A full sized flower..with petals beautifully cupped.
2. Lying as if in a cup.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles
barrelled1494
casked1624
pocketed1647
tunned1672
intubed1688
kitted1725
basined1745
canistered1843
pottled1845
carboyed1855
tubbed1882
sacked1895
pouched1905
cartoned1921
cupped1929
ampouled1969
slipcased1969
1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris i. ii. 44 He repeated above the cupped match.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 30 And the bird descended On a bread white hill over the cupped farm.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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