funiculus

Other forms of funiculus

plural

funiculi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about funiculus

What does funiculus mean?

funiculus means "the stalk of a plant ovule or seed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in funiculus?

funiculus has 4 syllables: fu-ni-cu-lus. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for funiculus?

Close synonyms include funicle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funiculus a common word?

funiculus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.