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Cunicular vs Funicular - What's the difference?

cunicular | funicular |

As adjectives the difference between cunicular and funicular

is that cunicular is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a rabbit while funicular is of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.

As a noun funicular is

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.

cunicular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a rabbit.
  • * 2002': I didn't see Albacore until I arrived in the lecture theatre a few minutes before nine and saw his '''cunicular nose twitch with relief. — , ''Death's Jest-Book , page 79.

    • funicular

    English

    (wikipedia funicular)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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

    (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.