pedicel

[ ped-uh-suhl, -sel ]

noun

1. Botany.
   1. a small stalk.
   2. an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
   3. one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
2. Zoology. a pedicle or peduncle.

pedicel

/ ˈpɛdɪˌsɛl; pɪˈdɪsɪˌleɪt /

noun

1. the stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence
2. Also calledpeduncle biology any short stalk bearing an organ or organism
3. the second segment of an insect's antenna

pedicel

/ pĕd′ĭ-səl /

1. A small stalk supporting a single flower in an inflorescence.

Derived Forms

• pedicellate, adjective

Other Words From

• ped·i·cel·lar [ped-, uh, -, sel, -er], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pedicel¹

1670–80; < New Latin pedicellus, diminutive of Latin pediculus a little foot. See pedicle

Word History and Origins

Origin of pedicel¹

C17: from New Latin pedicellus, from Latin pedīculus, from pēs foot

Example Sentences

Scape and slender-petioled leaves from a sort of granulate bulb; lobes of leaves linear; corolla with 2 divergent spurs longer than the pedicel; crest of the inner petals minute.—Rich woods, especially westward.—A very delicate plant, sending up in early spring, from the cluster of grain-like tubers crowded together in the form of a scaly bulb, the finely cut leaves and the slender scape, bearing 4–10 pretty, but odd, white flowers tipped with cream-color.

From Project Gutenberg

Spikelets usually 2-flowered, with an abortive rudiment or pedicel, numerous, in a contracted or slender panicle, very smooth.

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Calyx 5-parted; the divisions somewhat petal-like, oblong, connivent and coriaceous in fruit, the base and almost the whole length of the pedicel winged on one side.

From Project Gutenberg

Glabrous; leaves ovate or heart-shaped pointed, entire; petioles dilated at base and partly clasping, but with no distinct sheath or stipules; flowers greenish, 2–5 in a fascicle from the axil of an awl-shaped bract, these crowded in axillary and terminal racemes; pedicel jointed near the base; fruiting calyx with the wing 1´ long.—S.

From Project Gutenberg

Achene ovate, flat, extremely oblique, reflexed on the winged or margined pedicel, nearly naked.—Perennial herbs, with stinging hairs, large alternate serrate leaves, and axillary stipules.

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Related Words

• trunk
• twig