How To Use funicle In A Sentence
- The new species is easily distinguished from all known species in this genus by the 6-segmented funicle of female.
- A bright-orange ribbon, known as a funicle, attaches each seed to the pod. Chapter 5
- Acacia auriculiformis looks much like Acacia aulacocarpa and Acacia crassicarpa (see below), but the fine veins of the phyllodes are anastomose (interconnected), the pods are narrower and more undulate than those of Acacia aulacocarpa, and the funicle encircles each seed. Chapter 8
- The enlarged, fleshy, white funicles of the neotropical Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana are rich in fatty oil and serve as a kind of elaiosome in ant dispersal.
- This happens when the fruit is in the tree crown and the seeds are still attached to the inner fruit wall by a cord called a funicle, which, in turn, is surrounded by a fleshy, white outgrow called an aril. Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World
- However, the strength of the funicle varies considerably within NSW specimens, with diatheca falling within the range of variation, so the subspecific name is unnecessary.
- Each side of the pod bears a placenta divided into two placental longitudinal laminae bearing funicles to which are attached seeds.
- As Mesorhopella but golden, antenna short, capitate, club equal funicle, funicles transverse. Archive 2007-03-01
- The colorful funicle seems to attract ants and birds, and this may help to disperse the seed. Chapter 5
- Ovular characters determine the grouping in the Dicotyledons, van Tieghem supporting the view that the integument, the outer if there be two, is the lamina of a leaf of which the funicle is the petiole, whilst the nucellus is an outgrowth of this leaf, and the inner integument, if present, an indusium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1