infundibuliformとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin īnfundibulum (“funnel”) + -form.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɪn.fʌnˈdɪb.jʊ.lɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɪn.fʌnˈdɪb.jə.lɪˌfɔɹm/

形容詞

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.

同意語

• infundibular

派生語

参照

• 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.