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Rarefunicular
The correct spelling is funicular.
How to pronounce funicular
noun
Say it like: Fun-icu-lar
The correct spelling is funicular. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
adjective
- 1.Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
- 2.Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
- 3.Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
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