Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence.
- noun A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the ultimate division of a common peduncle; the stalk that supports one flower only when there are several on a peduncle.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, a little foot or foot-like part; a footlet; a footstalk, pedicle, or peduncle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See
peduncle , andIllust. offlower . - noun A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns.
- noun (Zoöl.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See
Illust. ofAphis lion . - noun The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
- noun An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
- noun anatomy A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
- noun zoology A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other
arthropods , used in various specific senses. - noun mycology a slender stalk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a common short branchlet, loosely imbricate, distichous and shortly stipitate and the stipe with a purple thickening; pedicel is short, 1/24 to 1/12 inch with sometimes long deciduous hairs and the tip somewhat thickened.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The small brown "eye," called the pedicel, at the base of each kernel can be removed with the thumbnail or small scissors.
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_pedicelled spikelet_ is as long as the sessile, inarticulate on the very thick, short pedicel which is densely or sparsely hairy at the base.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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It is a question of a little more green here, a slightly sharper indent there, a hint of variegation on a leaf or pedicel.
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Var. angustifolia; leaves linear; calyx and pedicel glabrous; corolla outside glabrous or scantily hairy.
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“Gulgong” (EUCALYPTUS ROBUSTA), the pedicel of which is twirled between the thumb and second finger.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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As the traveler rotated, this extended pedicel began to swing in great arcs, even though there was no wind.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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As the traveler rotated, this extended pedicel began to swing in great arcs, even though there was no wind.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Including a little of the stem, or pedicel, directly above the fruit when harvesting it helps reduce spoiling (Figure 15.2).
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The flowers are small (though larger than those of many cultivated yams), about 3 mm long, closely appressed to the pedicel in long axillary or terminal racemes.
Chapter 37 1987
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