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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 cupplay

  Familiarity information: CUPLIKE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CUPLIKE (adjective)


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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