Dictionary entry

Cupuliferous

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cu′pu‐lif″er‐ous (k?′p?–l?f″?r–?s), a. [Cupule + -ferous: cf. F. cupulifère.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of 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.