EGAVE

funicular

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
  3. adjective Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
  4. adjective Synonym of catenary.
  5. noun A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving 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.

Similar words

funicular railway cable railway polygon cordy fascicular festoony telodynamic fulcral fibrous funambulistic

Often followed by

polygon railway process to polygons and segment curve up

Word family

funiculars

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