noun
definition
Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies
Examples of cupule in a Sentence
The latter are borne three together, invested by a cupule of four green bracts, which, as the fruit matures, grow to form the tough green prickly envelope surrounding the group of generally three nuts.
The generally one-seeded nut-like fruit is associated with the persistent often hardened or greatly enlarged bracts forming the so-called cupule which gives the name to the group. The group is subdivided as follows, and these subdivisions are now generally regarded either as distinct natural orders or the first two as sub-orders of one natural order.
Bracts forming a fleshy or hard cupule which envelops the one to several fruits.
Restoration of a seed, enclosed in the lobed cupule, which bears numerous glands.
The seed was stalked, and there is an exact agreement in structure between the vascular strands of the stalk and cupule of the seed, and those of the rachis and leaflets of Lyginodendron, thus confirming the evidence from the glands.