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infundibuliform: tags: [botany] [rare]

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Definition:

1. Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.
2. (Bot.) Same as Funnelform.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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The only end in sight was Yossarian's own, and he might have remained in the hospital until doomsday 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.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961)

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Almost any brief explanation of chrono-synclastic infundibula is certain to be offensive to specialists in the field.

Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)