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CUPLIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cuplike mean?
• CUPLIKE (adjective)
The adjective CUPLIKE has 1 sense:
1. resembling the shape of a cup
Familiarity information: CUPLIKE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling the shape of a cup
Similar:
concave (curving inward)
Context examples
A specialized tactile sensory nerve ending in the epidermis, characterized by a terminal cuplike expansion of an intraepidermal axon in contact with the base of a single modified keratinocyte.
(Merkel's Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)
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