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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Statoblast An internal bud arising from the funiculus, containing food-material in its cells, covered with a horny coat and capable of lying dormant in unfavourable conditions.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
The ovaries and testes are borne on the endocyst, not in connection with the funiculus.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
These curious bodies are produced from the funiculus, and act as reserves of propagative force, as they are not hatched or developed until they get out and find themselves exposed to appropriate circumstances.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
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.
There is a single funiculus, which connects the posterior end of the stomach with the base of the zoœcium.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
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
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 two funiculi graciles of opposite sides are in contact in the mid dorsal line and have between them the postero median fissure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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
Moquin also alludes to a case of the same nature in Cortusa Mathioli, in which the funiculi bore little rounded leaves.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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