funiculus
Americannoun
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Anatomy. a conducting cord, as a nerve cord or umbilical cord.
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Botany. a funicle.
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Entomology. (in certain insects) the portion of the antenna between the basal segments and the club.
noun
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anatomy a cordlike part or structure, esp a small bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord
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a variant of funicle
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A stalk connecting an ovule or a seed with the placenta (the ovary wall). In some plants, the funiculus develops into a fleshy seed covering called an aril.
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A slender, cordlike strand or band, especially a bundle of nerve fibers in a nerve trunk.
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Any of three major divisions of white matter in the spinal cord.
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The umbilical cord.
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Etymology
Origin of funiculus
1655–65; < Latin: small rope, cord, equivalent to fūni ( s ) rope, line + -culus -cule 1
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The ovary develops at the end of the upper, the testis at that of the lower funiculus.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
The reproductive organs are borne on the inner surface of the endocyst, as a rule in a definite position, and often in connection with the funiculus or funiculi.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
Hilum, the place of junction of the funiculus with the body of the ovule.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Therefore in this case the attachment of the funiculus or stalk is about the middle, the chalaza is at one end, the orifice at the other.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Funes or funiculi were small ropes or cords, covered with wax or tallow; such were the torches, used on such occasions; hence the word funus or funeral.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
"Jammo, jammo; jammo, jammo jà," sang the loud, hoarse voices; then a tremendous scrape and twang, and the yelled-out burden, "Funiculi, funiculà; funiculi, funiculà; jammo, jammo, jammo, jammo, jammo jà."
From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon
In other cases no traces of ovules are visible, but the funiculi are in a foliaceous condition.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
The reproductive organs are borne on the inner surface of the endocyst, as a rule in a definite position, and often in connection with the funiculus or funiculi.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
In these flowers the placenta seemed to be composed of several funiculi soldered together, and bearing imperfect ovules.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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