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单词 cupule
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cupulen.

Brit. /ˈkjuːpjuːl/, U.S. /ˈkjupjul/
Etymology: < Latin cūpula, diminutive of cūpa cask, tub, (later) cup; compare French cupule (1798 Bulliard Dict. de Botan.). In botany the Latin form ˈcupula is also used.
1. Botany. A cup-shaped involucre consisting of bracts cohering by their bases, as in the oak, beech, and hazel. Also, a cup-like receptacle found in such fungi as Peziza.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > involucre
fence1727
involucrum1753
involucel1765
involucre1787
involucret1793
cupule1830
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 248 An external additional envelope called the cupula.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) vii. 117 The cupule..in common language, is called husk in the Filbert, Chesnut, and Beech, and cup in the Oak.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 228/2 The receptacles or cupules in which thecæ are produced.
2. Zoology. A small cup-shaped organ, as the sucking-disc of the cuttlefish and of certain aquatic beetles.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > cup-shaped
cupule1826
calicle1848
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. 179 Caps or cupules surmounted by a tendon.
3. A small cup-shaped depression on a surface.
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1883 H. A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 112 [article Meteors] The surfaces very often have small cup-like cavities, sometimes several inches in diameter, sometimes like deep imprints in a plastic mass made by the ends of the fingers, and sometimes still smaller. These ‘cupules’..may be regarded as a characteristic of meteorites..The air pressed hard against it burns it unequally, forming cupules over its surface.
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