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Example sentences for "cuplike"

Lexicographically close words:
cupids; cupiens; cupio; cupit; cupiunt; cupola; cupolaed; cupolas; cupp; cuppe
  1. During their occupancy the hall was covered by its twenty-four small cuplike sections, each of which is carried on four slender ribs.

  2. During the last quarter of the XII century the Plantagenet school was building vaults of this type, and they remained in vogue till the cuplike shape died out altogether.

  3. Similarly around the papillæ in the cuplike arms of the pelvis we find minute, flattened or more or less rounded, yellowish-white concretions.

  4. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

  5. A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

  6. Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.

  7. Defn: A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

  8. A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes.

  9. A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

  10. Defn: A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

  11. Art) Defn: A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.

  12. Defn: A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

  13. Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes.

  14. Defn: Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.

  15. The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral.

  16. A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

  17. It is sharply pointed at one end, and has a cuplike depression in the opposite, thicker end.

  18. Instead of the usual nock in the butt end of the shaft for a bowstring, there is a cuplike depression (fig.

  19. One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids.

  20. A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillæ.

  21. One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals.

  22. One morning they looked down from the top of a heavily wooded hill into the smooth cuplike valley through which flowed the Little Deadman's Creek.

  23. Here, in a cuplike depression, they found the judge's cows, as well as several hundred other stolen animals.

  24. In California the Indian squaws make a sort of paste by crushing acorns between a round stone or "muller," and a cuplike hollow in the surface of a rock.

  25. In Goodeniaceae it ends in a cuplike expansion, enclosing the stigma.

  26. The cuplike cavity was 1-3/4 inches across at the top and the same in depth at the center.

  27. It consists of a circular block containing on its flat upper surface, which is twenty-two inches across, seven cuplike hollows, four and a half inches deep.

  28. It consists of a flat surface in which are depressed nine cuplike hollows.

  29. Progression of wear soon eliminates the signs of the shallowest counterfolds from the occlusal surface and finally the tooth is reduced to a short crown with a cuplike occlusal surface completely filled with dentine.

  30. Advanced wear usually develops a cuplike occlusal surface with only the remains of the main fold and also remains of one or more counterfolds represented by small enamel islands (Figs.

  31. But the filaments, instead of having a cuplike appendage, are winged, with the little anthers swinging prettily upon their summits.

  32. It is from these cuplike seed-vessels that the genus takes its name, which is derived from two Greek words, meaning flower and cup.

  33. Beneath them the cliffs fell sheer into the cuplike bay, its bottom stygian in its blackness.

  34. After sailing many days, the Good Intent was run into the vast cuplike harbor.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuplike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.