cupulate

[Lat. cupu ( la ) (q. v.), and Eng., ., suff. -ate .] Bot. The same as CUPULAR (q. v.). cu-pule, cù-pu-la, s. [CUPULA.] Botany: 1. A kind of inflorescence consisting of a cup formed by bracts cohering by their bases. In the oak the cupule is woody, entire, and scaly, with undulated bracts; in the beech it forms a sort of coriaceous, valvular, spurious pericarp; in the hazelnut it is foliaceous and lacerated; and in the hornbeam it takes the form of a lobed bract. 2. A cup-like body existing in Peziza and some other Fungals. cu-pu-lif-er-æ, 8. pl. [Lat. cupula, in the botanical sense, and fero = to bear.] Bot.: The name given in A. D. 1808 by Richard, and subsequently by IMG:content-1573.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1. Oak. 2. Hazel. 3. Hornbeam. various other botanists, to the order of diclinous Exogens termed by Mirbel, Lindley, ., Corylacese. They are so called from po e ing a cupule which takes the form of a bony or coriaceous one-celled nut, more or le inclosed in an an involucre. [CORY