Chaison rotated a little cup-shaped object in his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

It is tough and cup-shaped, with ridges across it like an ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Its cup-shaped skeleton is similar in structure to that of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference

Both instruments have cup-shaped mouthpieces outwardly similar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Bowls on inverted cup-shaped feet not uncommon (VIII, Fig. 11).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

The footmark is surrounded by a number of cup-shaped depressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

They fall into two groups: flat (Ostrea) and cup-shaped (Crassostrea).    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference

Those made between 1660 and 1680 have cup-shaped bodies with short necks.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

The flowers are bright green, nearly 2in. across, cup-shaped, and drooping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

And on the waters grew beautiful lotus-flowers, lilies with cup-shaped leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Little Girl A Story for Children] Reference

The nest is cup-shaped, composed of plant fibers, lined with downy substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference

In both sexes it is short and cup-shaped, but in the male it is somewhat larger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

The cup-shaped cavity of the innominate bone for receiving the head of the femur.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

In ferns, an indusium; in filmy ferns, cup-shaped growths encircling the sporangia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Maize cobs are fed into the cup-shaped opening and shelled as the handle is turned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The flowers are 2in. to 2½in. across when expanded, but usually they are cup-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The valley, roughly cup-shaped with an uneven bottom, was about four kilometers wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

The morning stillness came flooding into the cup-shaped valley like a soft, resistless wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

Calyculate: applied to antennae, whose cup-shaped joints are so arranged as to fit one into the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

They are typically disc-shaped or cup-shaped, and when young are closed or nearly so, opening when mature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

The waterlilies had pink cup-shaped blossoms, and the rushes were topped with nosegays of purple and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

Just below the neck and externally, there is a cup-shaped cavity into which the head of the thigh bone fits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The great beauty of the flower in the florist's eye, consists in its being cup-shaped and round at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference

The little calyx is cup-shaped, angular, and has small, stout, horn-like segments, which are bent downwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Wash them thoroughly, and then hollow out the inside of each, leaving cup-shaped shells about 1/4 inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference

Points should rest in cup-shaped depressions in a metal plate; knife-edges in V-shaped grooves in a metal ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things To Make] Reference

Press these pieces lightly with the finger or the handle of the knife, so they will take little cup-shaped forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Italian Cookery] Reference

Sporangia borne on an elevated, globular receptacle in a membranous, cup-shaped indusium which is open at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

A cup-shaped case (A) is provided, made of some insulating material, which has a diaphragm (B) secured at its open side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electricity for Boys] Reference

At the eastern end these hills have curious fungoid or cup-shaped hollows, of a size which suggests the idea of craters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

This cup-shaped organ was placed at the back of the flower, and had the dark colour proper to the petals in that situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Each flower is 2 in. in diameter when fully spread out, cup-shaped, and composed of two or three rows of over-lapping petals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

They found Steve's outfit with the cattle -- nearly a thousand head of them -- feeding in two cup-shaped hollows chained by a narrow path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference