pedicel
Americannoun
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Botany.
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a small stalk.
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an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
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one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
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Zoology. a pedicle or peduncle.
noun
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the stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence
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Also called: peduncle. biology any short stalk bearing an organ or organism
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the second segment of an insect's antenna
Other Word Forms
- pedicellar adjective
- pedicellate adjective
Etymology
Origin of pedicel
1670–80; < New Latin pedicellus, diminutive of Latin pediculus a little foot. See pedicle
Example Sentences
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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
A closely allied species, Piper Clusii, produces the African cubebs or West African black-pepper, the berry of which is smoother than that of common cubebs and usually has a curved pedicel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Maxill� without a notch, edge nearly straight, and spines very numerous: caudal appendages exceeding, by half, the length of the pedicel of the sixth cirrus.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
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