Crossword-Solution: FUNICULUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Funiculus | n. | A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord. |
| Funiculus | n. | A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. |
| Funiculus | n. | In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “FUNICULUS”
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| Bundle of nerve fibers | 1 answer |
| ANY OF SEVERAL BODY STRUCTURE RESEMBLING A CORD | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FUNICULUS (5)
From this instance it may be assumed that the hilum may only be defined correctly as the spot of union between the body of the seed and the funiculus.
Funiculus: the main tendon of abdomen: in Hymenoptera a slender ligament connecting the propodeum to petiole on its dorsal aspect.
Brongniart[275] records ovules of _Delphinium elatum_ existing in the form of marginal lobes of the carpellary leaf itself; so that each ovule corresponds to a lobe or large tooth of this leaf, the funiculus, as well as the raphe, being formed by the median nerve of the lateral lobe.
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.
And 1: It confirms _ad oculum_ our former Doctrine, that the falling and rising of the _Mercury_ depends upon the varying weight of the Atmosphere; since in this Baroscope it cannot {237} be pretended, that a _Fuga vacui_, or a _Funiculus_, is the cause of the changes, we observe.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).