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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUPULIFEROUS

Cu `pu *lif "er *ous (k `p-lf "r-s ), a. Etym: [Cupule + -ferous: cf. F.cupulif.]

 

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.