Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Botany The stalk of an inflorescence or a stalk bearing a solitary flower in a one-flowered inflorescence.
- n. Zoology A stalklike structure in invertebrate animals, usually serving as an attachment for a larger part or structure.
- n. Anatomy A stalklike bundle of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain.
- n. Medicine The stalklike base to which a polyp or tumor is attached.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a general flower-stalk supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower: in the latter case the cluster may be regarded as reduced to a single blossom. Gray. See also cut under pedicel.
- n. In zoöl., a little foot or foot-like part; a pedicle or pedicel. Specifically— The stalk of a barnacle.
- n. See the adjective.
- n. In zoöl: In certain protozoan parasites, a long and very delicate process, possibly a highly modified cilium, by which the organism is attached to the intestinal epithelium of its host, as in
Pyrsonympha vertens and Blepharocorys uncinata.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.
- n. botany A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.
- n. anatomy A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
- n. anatomy In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna.
- n. anatomy A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
- n. zoology A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
- n. (Zoöl.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See
Illust. of Barnacle. - n. (Anat.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain
WordNet 3.0
- n. stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower
- n. the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body
- n. a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain
Etymologies
- From Late Latin pedunculus, from Latin pedis, genitive of pēs, a ‘foot’ (Wiktionary)
- New Latin pedunculus, diminutive of Latin pēs, ped-, foot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“a leaf very near its base; peduncle is short; branches of the panicle, filiform, angular, flexuous, bearing one or more spikelets and produced as a bristle beyond the last spikelet.”
“Some of its axons pass backward to the abducent nucleus, this bundle is known as the peduncle of the superior olivary nucleus.”
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
“The widely-cleft, shell-less test is supported upon a thick peduncle, which is immersed in the skin of the”
“The peduncle is the fulcre of the fructifica - tion, or a partial ftem fupporting that only.”
“The fruits of _Tetragonia expansa_ frequently have attached to their side a secondary flower or fruit in such a position as to lead to the inference that it springs from the upper portion of the peduncle which is dilated to invest the true carpels.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“The _leaf-sheath_ is smooth, glabrous, slightly compressed, sparsely bearded at the mouth, shorter than the internode, except the one enclosing the peduncle which is usually long.”
“Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed.”
“The _inflorescence_ consists of digitately arranged spikes 1-1/2 to 4 inches long on a peduncle which is sometimes 15 inches long.”
“Their torpedo-shaped streamlined bodies, thin caudal peduncle, and stiff distinctively-shaped tails allow them to swim rapidly.”
“A male swimmer has just whipped the whole muscular, tapering rear of its body — the peduncle, which powers the fluke — high in the air.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘peduncle’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Tournure tour a-far
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And the Bog Down in the Valley-O
Tree-ish words.
ramification, dendritic, shoe tree, dendrochronology, xylophone, Pennsylvania, syntax tree, factor tree, square root, peppermint bark, table leaf, twiggy and 2 more...
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Anatomy of plants and animals
A collection of anatomical names for parts of humans, animals, plants, and whatever anyone else can recall.
anther, stamen, pistil, filament, style, stigma, calyx, petal, sepal, peduncle, carpel, leaf and 22 more...
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Uncle! Uncle!
Uncles, words or phrases with the letters u-n-c-l-e (in that order), and anything avuncular.
uncle, avuncular, Uncle Sam, The Man From U.N...., peduncle, avunculus, say uncle, avunculate, avunculism, patruus, avunculocal, nuncle and 22 more...
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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Tweets
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yarb Its shade, and the folly of peduncles, delicately camouflaged the basic details...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor Jun 4, 2008