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单词 funicle
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funiclen.

Brit. /ˈfjuːnᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈfjunəkl/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin fūniculus.
Etymology: < classical Latin fūniculus funiculus n.; compare -cle suffix. Compare funiculus n.
1. A hypothetical invisible filament of matter thought to support the column of mercury in a tube inverted in a mercury reservoir; = funiculus n. 1. Obsolete.
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1662 R. Boyle tr. P. Gassendi in Def. Doctr. Spring & Weight of Air 115 in New Exper. Physico-mechanical (ed. 2) Hence it comes to pass, that this Funicle [L. funiculo] being contracted by the cold, the water doth ascend in cold weather; but doth descend in hot, because by heat the Funicle [L. funiculus] is dilated.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 134 The uppermost Surface of the Quicksilver being sliced off, is dilated into a tenuous Column or Funicle.
1712 J. M. tr. J. Freind Chym. Lect. App. 183 We may likewise allow of the Attractive Funicles of Linus, and the Variation of Extention in the same Matter.
1800 M. Young Anal. Princ. Nat. Philos. 225 It follows, that the suspension of the mercury in the barometer is neither caused by the fuga vacui of the Paripatetics, nor the mercurial funicle of Linus, but solely by the weight of the atmosphere.
2. Botany. A small stalk connecting an ovule or seed to the placenta of the ovary of a plant. Cf. funiculus n. 2b.
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podosperm1819
umbilical cord1819
retinaculum1821
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1824 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica II. 395 Funicle consisting of a narrow linear fascicle of vessels, surrounding entirely the external covering of the seed.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 87 Cytisus, Broom..seeds with a tumid funicle.
1905 Torreya 5 84 The [pollen] tube enters the ovule through the funicle.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants iii. 271 Some seeds have little oil sacs—elaiosomes or caruncles—near the funicle.
2012 New Phytologist 193 499/2 Normal funicles were long and tapering after seed abscission.
3. Entomology. In certain hymenopteran insects: the part of the antenna located between the scape and the club; = funiculus n. 5b.
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1869 Entomol. Monthly Mag. Oct. 104 The funicle has all its joints thick and shorter, the first only excepted.
1881 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1881 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 361 The club is rather large..as long as or longer than the last four funicle joints together.
1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 14 In some insects, particularly among Hymenoptera, the flagellum is divisible into the ring-joints, the funicle, and the club.
1997 J. S. Noyes et al. in G. A. P. Gibson et al. Annotated Keys Genera Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) viii. 185 Clava white, contrasting with dark brown funicle.
2014 Florida Entomol. 97 1406/1 The 4-segmented funicle is covered with long, slightly curved hairs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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