What is "cuplike"

Usage examples of "cuplike".

It was a redoubt worthy of the name, and it stood there at the center of the cuplike vale with stolid rocky patience, frowning at the surrounding hills, antique and indomitable.

Below the bench on which they stood, a pool was set in a cuplike bay amid the rocks, all but hidden by the grey, tangling branches of a thicket of trees.

A large sphere, maybe ten meters across, freed itself from a cuplike, hemispherical mount.

Voth said, sitting beside Bram with his lower limbs coiled into a ball that would fit in one of the cuplike seats.

Below the bench on which they stood, a pool was set in a cuplike bay amid the rocks, all but hidden by the gray, tangling branches of a thicket of trees.

It was a little under two meters tall with a thick, smooth, green-skinned body ending in two round, thick legs without apparent joint, supported by broad, flat-bottomed round cuplike feet.

Riane could see the end of the tentacle expand into a cuplike shape that had absorbed her blood in a wink.

The cuplike station had been hung off the end of the landing platform by a team under Chief Brooks and it lifted his head and shoulders just over the platform itself.

Behind the struggling fighters, first one tree and then another bent sideways, limbs twisting around themselves to reveal the bright red fruit cradled in the cuplike caps at the end of each branch.

At last they reached the top of a ridge that looked down into a small, cuplike hollow.

One of the vines that clawed its way around the trunk of the tallest tree, whose crown was out of sight among the other vegetation, had cuplike flowers of ivory pink, attracting hordes of small turquoise insects.

After a short while, the sound of the little brook was joined by the louder sound of falling water, and through a gap in the trees ahead, Kellen could see what must be their destination for the night: a wide crack in the canyon wall where a tiny waterfall spilled down from above to fill a cuplike catch-basin before spilling away into the narrow stream.

They built round, cuplike boats of withes and mud and used them to scuttle between the huts and the shore.

He helped Elinor dismount, then dismounted himself and led the way up a lovely wooded path where dogwoods waved their creamy, cuplike blossoms overhead.