cup-shaped
Example Sentences
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The oaks have waxy, cup-shaped leaves — not only do they rarely go up in flame, but they can catch embers out of the sky and extinguish them, Yelchin said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024
Sometimes described as appearing like a stack of deflated balloons or some dropped lasagna, the organelle called the Golgi body is composed of a series of cup-shaped membrane-covered sacs.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Her cup-shaped home is made of mud, covered in moss and cantilevered over a glass light fixture — an avian Fallingwater.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Polyps are cup-shaped and have tentacles extending from the edge of the cup.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The beach, miraculously, was empty, a small, cup-shaped bay where no ship could have anchored—no docks, no port.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
