The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.

The saxhorn is a valved brass instrument with a conical bore and deep cup-shaped mouthpiece.

It uses a deep funnel-or cup-shaped mouthpiece.

It was originally designed as a tube measuring some 11 to 12 feet in length, of narrow cylindrical bore, and played by means of a cup-shaped mouthpiece.

Two to four greenish white eggs are laid in a small and compact cup-shaped nest made out of grass and bound with cobwebs and placed in the fork of a tree.

It is a circular, cup-shaped formation that has been excavated out of the level surface by the impact, and is the same dark hue as the surrounding mare.

The Costa's Hummingbird constructs a small cup-shaped nest out of plant fibers and down and coated with lichen to hold it together.

The fruits are globose or oblong berries, 3 – 5 cm in length, hard and fleshy and at the junction of the peduncle part with the fruit covered by a cup-shaped, occasionally flat, cupule, giving them an appearance similar to an acorn.

Although white pine was frequently used for flooring in buildings constructed before the U. S. Civil War, the wood is soft and consequently you will find cup-shaped depressions from normal wear and tear on almost every old white pine floor.

Haeckel portrays a concrete demonstration of his Biogenetic Law through his ‘ Gastrea ’ theory, in which he argues that the early cup-shaped gastrula stage of development is a universal feature of multi-celled animals.

Once crossed, the dikaryons are established and a second spore stage is formed, numbered " I " and called aecia, which form dikaryotic aeciospores in dry chains in inverted cup-shaped bodies embedded in host tissue.

Water-filled copper pipes provide a cup-shaped scaffold in which the zirconia feed powder is packed, the whole contraption being wrapped with radio frequency induction coils running perpendicular to the copper pipes.

The cup-shaped nest is built 1 – 6 m above the ground in a tree or bush, most commonly at 3 – 4 m. It is well-hidden amongst leaves, often at the end of a branch or in a fork.

A carillon bell is a cast bronze cup-shaped bell whose partial tones are in such harmonious relationship to each other as to permit many such bells to be sounded together in varied chords with harmonious and concordant effect.

The flowers are each seated in a cup-shaped disk which is borne on the base of a scale which is itself attached to the rachis of the catkin.

The cup-shaped nest is made with grasses, leaves and other vegetation, bound together with mud.

A crucible is a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heated to extremely high temperatures.

The nest is a deep cup-shaped structure made of grasses held together with mud or sometimes manure in a tree fork up to 10 metres above the ground.

It is cup-shaped and composed of twigs, small roots, bark strips, moss, other plant material, cloth, paper, and feathers, with occasional mud added to the cup.

Nests are cup-shaped, usually constructed by the female, and often placed in a vertical fork of a tree or shrub ; many species are expert at adding moss, bark or lichen to the outside of the nest as camouflague, making it very difficult to spot ( even when it is in a seemingly prominent location ).

The fruit in some species ( particularly in the genera Ocotea and Oreodaphne ) is partly immersed or covered in a cup-shaped or deep thick cupule, which is formed from the tube of the calyx where the peduncle joins the fruit ; this gives the fruit an appearance similar to an acorn.

The Goldcrest's nest is a well-insulated cup-shaped structure built in three layers.

The cup-shaped nest is built by the female, usually in a shrub or tree.

The nests are piles of sticks around 27 inches in diameter and 6-17 inches high with a cup-shaped depression in the middle that is 8 inches across and 4 inches deep.

Females lay 5 to 6 eggs in a cup-shaped nest, which is always situated on the ground and is usually well-hidden in dense vegetation.

The Ruby-crowned Kinglet builds a cup-shaped nest, which may be pensile or placed on a tree branch and is often hidden.

* Bell ( instrument ), a percussion instrument, usually cup-shaped

The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord.

They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chloroplast may be discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral or ribbon shaped in different species.

These usually include one or more sheds ; downward facing cup-shaped surfaces that act as umbrellas to ensure that the part of the surface leakage path under the ' cup ' stays dry in wet weather.

Shrikes make simple, cup-shaped nests from twigs and grasses, in bushes and the lower branches of trees.

The cup involves three players, arranged in a semi-circular cup-shaped formation, one in the middle and back, the other two on the sides and forward.

They are more-or-less cup-shaped animals, ranging from in height, with sturdy lattice-like internal skeletons made up of fused spicules of silica.

Ascocarps come in a very large variety of shapes: cup-shaped, club-shaped, potato-like, spongy, seed-like, oozing and pimple-like, coral-like, nit-like, golf-ball-shaped, perforated tennis ball-like, cushion-shaped, plated and feathered in miniature ( Laboulbeniales ), microscopic classic Greek shield-shaped, stalked or sessile.

The cup-shaped, solitary, salverform flowers taper off into a narrow tube.

For instance, in Raphidiophrys the coat extends along the bases of the axopods, covering them with curved spicules that give them a pine-treeish look, and in Raphidiocystis there are both short cup-shaped spicules and long tubular spicules that are only a little shorter than the axopods.

* Acorns: Annual, singly or in pairs ; nut oval, rounded or acute at apex, bright chestnut brown, shining, one and a quarter to one and one-half inches in length ; cup, cup-shaped or turbinate, usually inclosing one-half or one-third of the nut, thin, light brown and downy within, reddish brown and rough outside, tuberculate near the base.

Most species build a cup-shaped nest on the branch of a tree or shrub, though a few tropical species normally attach their nests to leaves.

Porosomes are cup-shaped structures in the cell membranes of eukaryotic cells where vesicles dock in the process of vesicle fusion and secretion.

* Acorns: Annual, sessile or stalked ; nut ovoid or oblong, round at the apex, light brown, shining, three-quarters to an inch long ; cup-shaped, enclose about one-fourth of the nut, tomentose on the outside, tuberculate at base, scales with short obtuse tips becoming smaller and thinner toward the rim.

They often have nodding, bell-or cup-shaped flowers, and the majority are spring-flowering.

Thimble printers are closely related to daisy wheel printers, but instead of a flat wheel the petals were bent to form a cup-shaped " thimble " print element.