"cupula" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-cupula.wav Forms: cupulas [plural], cupulae [plural]
Etymology: Latin cupula Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|cupula}} Latin cupula Head templates: {{en-noun|s|cupulae}} cupula (plural cupulas or cupulae)
  1. A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object. Translations (cup-shaped or dome-shaped object): kuoppa (Finnish), kolo (english: cup-shaped) (Finnish), pahkula (english: dome-shaped) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cupula-en-noun-dU0sgKGE Disambiguation of 'cup-shaped or dome-shaped object': 93 7
  2. (anatomy) A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation Translations (anatomy: movable object in the ear): cupula (Finnish), kocsonyás kúp (Hungarian), kocsonyás test (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-cupula-en-noun-HJ7r7PTx Categories (other): Anatomy, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 29 71 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'anatomy: movable object in the ear': 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cupulolithiasis

Inflected forms

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