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funicle|ˈfjuːnɪk(ə)l|
[Anglicized form of funiculus.]
In various senses of funiculus, esp. a. = funiculus 2. b. Bot. = funiculus 3.
1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 134 The uppermost Surface of the Quicksilver being sliced off, is dilated into a tenuous Column or Funicle. 1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Funicle, a little stalk, by which the seed is attached to the placenta. 1860Fowler Med. Voc., Funicle, in Anat., an aggregation of fibres into a little round cord. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 87 Cytisus, Broom..seeds with a tumid funicle.
c. Ent. = funiculus 4.
1881L. O. Howard in Rep. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1880 iii. 361 The club is rather large..as long as or longer than the last four funicle joints together. 1888J. H. Comstock Introd. Ent. ii. 11 The funicle is that part of the clavola between the club and the ring-joints; or, when the latter are not specialized, between the club and the pedicel. 1923A. D. MacGillivray Guide Ext. Insect Anat. iii. 79 In those species..where the distal end of the flagellum is clavate, the enlarged segments are known as the club and the segments between the club and the ring-segments as the funicle. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Ent. 14 In some insects, particularly among Hymenoptera, the flagellum is divisible into the ring-joints, the funicle, and the club... The funicle comprises those joints which intervene between the ring-joints and the club,..or between the latter and the pedicel in cases when the ring-joints are not differentiated. 1937[see funiculus 4 b]. |