cuplike in English

adjective

shaped as a cup, resembling a cup

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1. A plastic or rubber cuplike device that is smaller than the diaphragm.

2. The egg remains hanging in the atrial chamber by means of a cuplike "placenta."

3. Crinoids are pentamerous, stalked echinoderms with a cuplike body bearing five usually branched and commonly featherlike arms (see figure below)

4. Crocuses are native to the Alps, southern Europe, and the Mediterranean area and are widely grown for their cuplike blooms in early spring or fall.

5. Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.

6. Aril: a botanical term used to denote an accessory seed coating that may form a fleshy, cuplike structure around the immature seed (ovule), as in yew and nutmeg

7. Bowman’s capsule, double-walled cuplike structure that makes up part of the nephron, the filtration structure in the mammalian kidney that generates urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood

8. Definition of Cupcake : a small cake baked in a cuplike mold Examples of Cupcake in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Guests can choose corned beef and cabbage, fish cakes with colcannon or vegetarian shepherd’s pie for their entrée and Irish apple cake or a …

9. Gastrula definition, a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the Blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.

10. Gastrula definition, a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the Blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.