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.

A cup-shaped mouthpiece carved out of a block of hard wood is added and the instrument is complete.

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.

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

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.

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.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

The `` C '' club is composed of the men of the College who have won an official letter in Carleton athletics.

Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

If three dice are tossed, a trial is one toss of one die and the experiment is composed of three trials.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

If the inner functions of religion are performed, the individual is a composed, ordered, motivated, and emotionally secure associate ; ;

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

Although the fatty protein molecules, carried in the blood and partly composed of cholesterol, are water soluble, cholesterol itself is insoluble, and cannot be destroyed by the body.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

The order of the books ( or the teachings from which they are composed ) is not certain, but this list was derived from analysis of Aristotle's writings.

UTC is a discontinuous time scale composed from segments that are linear transformations of atomic time, the discontinuities being arranged so that UTC approximated UT2 until the end of 1971, and UT1 thereafter.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

Allieae is sister to a clade composed of Tulbaghia and Gilliesieae.