infundibuliform

From Latin īnfundibulum (“funnel”), and the Latin fōrma (“shape, likeness”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfʌnˈdɪbjʊlɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/

infundibuliform (comparative more infundibuliform, superlative most infundibuliform)

1. having the shape of a funnel or cone.
   • 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 2, in Catch-22, Vintage, published 2004, 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.

• infundibular

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “infundibuliform”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Borrowed from French infundibuliforme.

infundibuliform m or n (feminine singular infundibuliformă, masculine plural infundibuliformi, feminine and neuter plural infundibuliforme)

1. infundibular

• infundibuliform in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN