funiculus
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funiculi
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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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funiculi
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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 ovaries and testes are borne on the endocyst, not in connection with the funiculus.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
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 Nelson Annandale
In Flustra the young polypide-bud becomes connected with the 'brown body' by a funiculus.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
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 Maxwell T. Masters
The sporangia are quite small and numerous, not attached by a funiculus to the peridium, enveloped in mucus.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 Maxwell T. Masters
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 Maxwell T. Masters
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 Maxwell T. Masters
Bi ieremie þe prophete we aȝen to understonden 65 ulcne mon sunfulle. þ̵. lið in heuie sunne ⁊ þurh soðe scrift his sunbendes nule slakien. funiculi amaritudines penitencie significant.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
There are two funiculi, both connecting the pyloric part of the stomach with the endocyst.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
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