Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a funnel, as the corolla of a petunia or a morning glory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a funnel, or inverted hollow cone; specifically, in botany, applied to a monopetalous corolla shaped like a funnel, in which the tube enlarges gradually from below, but expands widely at the summit; infundibuliform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having the shape of a
funnel
Etymologies
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funnel + -form
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Examples
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Calyx inferior, funnelform, with 4-5 sepals as long as the corolla.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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