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Webster 1913 Edition


Infundibuliform

Inˊfun-dib′u-li-form

,
Adj.
[L.
infundibulum
funnel +
-form
: cf. F.
infundibuliforme
.]
1.
Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.
2.
(Bot.)
Same as
Funnelform
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Infundibuliform

INFUNDIB'ULIFORM

,
Adj.
[L. infundibulum, a funnel, and form.]
In botany, having the shape of a funnel,as the corol of a flower; monopetalous, having a conical border rising from a tube.

Definition 2024


infundibuliform

infundibuliform

English

Adjective

infundibuliform (comparative more infundibuliform, superlative most infundibuliform)

  1. having the shape of a funnel or cone.
    • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Vintage (2004), chapter 2, page 18:
      ... had it not been for that patriotic Texan with his infundibuliform jowls and his lumpy, rumpleheaded, indestructible smile cracked forever across the front of his face like the brim of a black ten-gallon hat.
    • 1784, William Marsden, The history of Sumatra, page 88:
      This is a monopetalous, infundibuliform, white flower, of the tuberofe kind.

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  • Angus Stevenson (editor), Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199206872)