Usually means: Stalk connecting ovule to placenta.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. funicle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. funicle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. funicle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. funicle: Vocabulary.com
  5. funicle: Wordnik
  6. funicle: Wiktionary
  7. funicle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. funicle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. funicle: Dictionary.com
  10. Funicle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. funicle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. funicle: Rhymezone
  13. Funicle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. funicle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. funicle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. funicle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. funicle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. funicle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. funicle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. funicle: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Biological Control (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (funicle)

noun:  (botany) The stalk or stem of an ovule or seed.
noun:  (entomology) Intermediate segments of the antenna of chalcid wasps adjoining the pedicel basally and the clava distally.

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