funicular

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

Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.

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

Synonym of catenary.

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.