Complete Definition of "funicular"

English

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable

#botany Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

Noun
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en-noun

#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.

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Russian: ��ник�л�� (funikuljór) m

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