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cu•pule



Pronunciation: (kyOO'pyOOl), [key]
—n.
1. Bot.
a. a cup-shaped whorl of hardened, cohering bracts, as in the acorn. See illus. under acorn.
b. a cup-shaped outgrowth of the thallus of certain liverworts.
c. the apothecium of a cup fungus.
2. Zool.a small cup-shaped sucker or similar organ or part.

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