[Anglicized form of FUNICULUS.] In various senses of FUNICULUS, esp. a. = FUNICULUS 2. b. Bot. = FUNICULUS 3.
1664. Power, Experimental Philosophy, II. 134. The uppermost Surface of the Quicksilver being sliced off, is dilated into a tenuous Column or Funicle.
1840. Paxton, Bot. Dict., Funicle, a little stalk, by which the seed is attached to the placenta.
1860. R. Fowler, Med. Voc., Funicle.… In Anat., An aggregation of fibres into a little round cord.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 87. Cytisus, Broom … seeds with a tumid funicle.
