FUNICULI

FUNICULUS

funiculus

(noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord

funicle, funiculus

(noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

funiculi

plural of funiculus

Source: Wiktionary


FUNICULUS

Fu*nic"u*lus, n.; pl. Funiculi. Etym: [L., a little cord. See Funicle.]

1. (Anat.) 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.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. (b) In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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