cupule in English
The ovule is surrounded by integument tissues which produce the seed coat, and in the earliest seed plants another layer called the cupule enclosed the entire ovule/seed.
Use "cupule" in a sentence
1. Acorns are usually seated in or surrounded by a woody cupule
2. Three of the specimens are interpreted as representing a pair of Cupules derived from a single megasporophyll showing dichotomy so that each cupule is termed a hemi-cupule and has two lobed
3. Acorn definition, the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule
4. Acorn definition is - the nut of the oak usually seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts.
5. Cupule (plural Cupules) Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies; Translations
6. In archeology: rock Cupules are circular man-made hollows on the surface of a rock or a rock slab; also a cupstone.; In botany: the base of an acorn, see calybium and cupule.; In entomology:
7. The Cupules are often in tight clusters of three or two, cup‐ or deeply bowl‐shaped, valveless, covered with imbricate and appressed blunt scales, containing a single fruit in each cupule and enclosing about
8. In 1990 eleven petroglyphs were observed, nine Cupules on Chief's Rock, which also bore marks of red pigment, and two petroglyphs, a cupule and meandering line, on a boulder in trench II, site III F-24, excavated by V
9. The fruit is a nut called an acorn or oak nut borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule; each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and takes 6–18 months to mature, depending on their species.