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Definition of Funnelform
1. a. Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
Definition of Funnelform
1. Adjective. having the shape of a funnel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Funnelform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Funnelform
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Funnelform
Literary usage of Funnelform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"corollas with slender tube girt by a ring at the summit, and a funnelform or more
dilated 5-lobed limb. Style-branches of the disk-flowers truncate-capitate ..."
2. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... deflexed, silvery without, pale yellow within, fragrant, the tube broadly
oval, the limb funnelform : fruit globose-ovoid, dry and mealy, edible. ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... broadly funnelform, 7-10 mm. long; its limb deeply 4-lobed, each lobe bifid,
giving 8 subequal obtuse elliptic segments: fruits ribbed and pubescent. ..."
4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"funnelform; stamens more equal in length, the fifth sometimes anther-bearing.
Arid places: s Utah—Ariz.—NM; Mex. Son. Jl-Au. 73. P. suffrutescens Rydb. ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... acute or acuminate, serrate, dark green above, pale beneath, glabrous, about
1 in. long: fls. in loose, terminal panicles ; corolla funnelform, ..."
6. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1920)
"Flower short-funnelform; scales of ovary and flower-tube acute 5. ... Corolla
short-funnelform; fruit fleshy. Mostly columnar cacti with stout stems, ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Flowers 1-4 ; corolla campanulate-funnelform, its lobes 2—3 times as long as the
plaits. Flowers several or numerous ; corolla club-shaped, its lobes not ..."
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