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(Bot.) Infundibular, infundibuliform.
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tunnel — ► NOUN ▪ an artificial underground passage, built through a hill or under a building or by a burrowing animal. ► VERB (tunnelled, tunnelling; US tunneled, tunneling) ▪ dig or force a passage underground or through something. DERIVATIVES tunneller … English terms dictionary
tunnel — noun 1》 an artificial underground passage, as built through a hill or under a building or by a burrowing animal. 2》 a polytunnel. verb (tunnels, tunnelling, tunnelled; US tunnels, tunneling, tunneled) 1》 dig or force a passage underground or… … English new terms dictionary
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Tunnel — This article is about underground passages. For other uses, see Tunnel (disambiguation). Underground tunnel for heatpipes between Rigshospitalet and Amagerværket in Denmark … Wikipedia
Tunnel boring machine — A tunnel boring machine that was used at Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a mole , is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata.… … Wikipedia
Tunnel valley — A tunnel valley is a deep but narrow valley with a U shaped cross section and frequently a U shaped plan which is usually found filled with glacial till. It is formed when the edge of an ice sheet advances up a slope. Its length may be… … Wikipedia
Tunnel fins — The Tunnel fin is used on surfboards especially heavy longboards and longboard guns. The weight and length of these boards make it easier to control the fore and aft angle of the tunnel. As the name suggests it is shaped like a tunnel. Tunnel… … Wikipedia
tunnel — tunneler; esp. Brit., tunneller, n. tunnellike, adj. /tun l/, n., v., tunneled, tunneling or (esp. Brit.) tunnelled, tunnelling. n. 1. an underground passage. 2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a… … Universalium
tunnel — {{11}}tunnel (n.) mid 15c., funnel shaped net for catching birds, from M.Fr. tonnelle net, or tonel cask, dim. of O.Fr. tonne tun, cask for liquids, possibly from the same source as O.E. tunne (see TUN (Cf. tun)). Sense of tube, pipe (1540s)… … Etymology dictionary
tunnel — Also referred to as funnel, alley, cone, and vessel. All five terms were introduced in or shortly before 1928 as more or less synonymous terms by the German American biological psychologist and philosopher Heinrich Klüver (1897 1979) to denote … Dictionary of Hallucinations
