pedicle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Biology A small stalk or stalklike structure, especially one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part. Also called pedicel.
2. n. Medicine A slender footlike or stemlike part, as at the base of a tumor.
3. n. Medicine Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A foot-iron. Compare manacle (originally manicle).
2. n. A pedicel or peduncle.
3. n. Specifically — The bony process supporting the antler of the Cervidæ, or deer family.
4. n. The foot of the neural arch of a vertebra, usually a contracted part of such an arch (in comparison with its lamina), whereby the arch joins the body or centrum of the vertebra. The pedicles of any two contiguous vertebræ circumscribe the intervertebral foramina for the exit of spinal nerves. Synonyms See peduncle.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
2. n. The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
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GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Same as pedicel.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle