Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a cord or cable; rope-shaped; funicular: applied to the tough, cord-like roots of some arborescent endogens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany tough and flexible like a cord

Etymologies

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Latin funis rope + -form.

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