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FUNNEL-SHAPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does funnel-shaped mean?
• FUNNEL-SHAPED (adjective)
The adjective FUNNEL-SHAPED has 1 sense:
1. shaped in the form of a funnel
Familiarity information: FUNNEL-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped in the form of a funnel
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
Context examples
“By Saint Ives! it is true,” cried Sir Bertrand, striding across to the recess where the ungainly, funnel-shaped, thick-ribbed engines were standing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body.
(Infundibulum, NCI Thesaurus)
A funnel-shaped tube of grey matter and axons that connects the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary.
(Brain Infundibulum, NCI Thesaurus)
One funnel-shaped depression in the morass, of a livid green in color from some lichen which festered in it, will always remain as a nightmare memory in my mind.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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