cuplike
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4.1
Shaped like a cup that can hold water
- adjective
- /ˈkʌpˌlaɪk/
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en forma de taza
- She poured the juice into a cuplike container for easy drinking.
Examples
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The plant has beautiful, cuplike flowers that attract many pollinators.
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There were flowers, too, slender dark orange blossoms that grew four or five together from a cuplike circle of leaves.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sculpture was designed with a cuplike form to hold the artist's materials.
Synonyms
9.9
Having the shape of a small cup that holds a seed
describes general cup resemblance not limited to botanical use
9.9
A plant part shaped like a small cup that often holds a seed
is broader meaning general cup resemblance outside botanical context
Antonyms
How Cuplike
Surface Forms
cuplike positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word cuplike is made of cup and the ending -like, where cup is the small round container and -like means 'similar to'. So cuplike describes something 'shaped like a cup', like hands held to catch snow or a flower that holds rain.