infundibuliform

From Latin infundibulum (“funnel”), and the Latin forma (“shape, likeness”).

infundibuliform (comparative more infundibuliform, superlative most infundibuliform)

1. having the shape of a funnel or cone.
   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Vintage (2004), chapter 2, 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.

• infundibular
• funnel-shaped

• “infundibuliform” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN.