a. [f. CUP sb. and v. + -ED.] Formed or hollowed out like a cup, cup-shaped.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants, II. 291. [Daucus maritimus] Umbels white, convex, not cupped when in seed.
1817. Keats, Sleep & Poetry, 255. Nibble the little cupped flowers.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 419/2. The buffed layer [in blood] sometimes assumes a cupped form.
1881. W. H. Stone, in Broadhouse, Mus. Acoustics, 233. Instruments with cupped mouthpieces.
1882. Garden, 30 Sept., 289/1. A full sized flower … with petals beautifully cupped.
