funicle (n.) The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
funicle fū′ni-kl, n. a small cord or
ligature: a fibre.—adj.Fūnic′ūlar.—n.Fūnic′ūlus, the
umbilical cord.—Funicular railway, a cable-railway, esp. one
ascending a hill. [L. funiculus, dim. of funis, a
cord.]
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