Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing cupules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Bearing, or furnished with, a
cupule .
Etymologies
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cupule + -ferous: compare French cupulifère.
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Examples
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The flowers that had received oak pollen did not show any oak parentage later in their progeny, and it was observed in other experiments in other years that almost any cupuliferous pollen would start cells of the chinquapin ovary into division and into the development of fertile nuts, but without inclusion of the pollen cell in
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