A cupule is a small structure shaped like a cup, including:
* In archeology,
rock cupule
Rock cupules () are artificially made depressions on rock surfaces that resemble the shape of an inverse spherical cap or dome. They were made by direct percussion with hand-held hammer-stones, on vertical, sloping or horizontal rock surfaces. C ...
s are circular man-made hollows on the surface of a large rock or a rock slab
** On a smaller artifact they are called a
cupstone.
* In botany: the base of an acorn, see
calybium and cupule.
* In entomology, a
sucker
Sucker may refer to:
General use
* Lollipop or sucker, a type of confection
* Sucker (slang), a slang term for a very gullible person
* Hard candy
** Cough drop
** Mint (candy)
Biology
* Sucker (botany), a term for a shoot that arises undergro ...
on the feet of some flies.
See also
*
Cupula (disambiguation)
A cupula is a small, inverted cup or dome-shaped cap over a structure, including:
* Ampullary cupula, a structure in the vestibular system, providing the sense of spatial orientation
* Cochlear cupula, a structure in the cochlea
* Cupula of the ple ...
*
Copula (disambiguation)
*
Cupul
Cupul or Kupul, (Maya: ''Kupul'', 'toponímico; adjective') was the name of a Maya chiefdom at time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. Cupul was one of the most extensive and densely populated Maya provinces on the Yucatán Peninsula. It was for ...
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