单词 | cupule |
释义 | cupulen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1826 |
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