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A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

ot form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

ng a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

t, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South…