Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Cup-shaped; resembling a small cup.

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  • adjective shaped like (or supporting) a cupule

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Examples

  • The _spikelets_ are solitary or binate, dorsally compressed, pale green or reddish, very shortly pedicelled, 1/4 to 5/16 inch long inclusive of the short awn, pedicel is cupular at the tip.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • DD. Joints of rachis and pedicels of upper spikelets clavate or trumpet-shaped and tips cupular with toothed margins.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _spikelets_ are very small, 1/16 inch long, turned all to one side and closely packed in two rows, oblong or oval-oblong, obtuse or subacute, softly hairy, pale green or purplish, with very short pedicels which are pubescent with a few long hairs towards the thickened cupular tips.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The spikes are very short at the ends of very fine branches, solitary, binate or fascicled, with very fragile rachis; joints are very short, slender with cupular tips.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _spikelets_ are glabrous, erect, pale or pale green, sometimes purplish also on one side, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1/8 inch, pedicels are long with cupular tips.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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