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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or supported by a pedicel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a pedicel or pedicels; pedunculate; specifically, of or pertaining to the Pedicellata. Also
pedicelled , pedicellated. See cut underCæcidotea .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
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- adjective Having (or supported by) a
pedicel
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Examples
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Each carries two types of flowers: one type has no stalk (sessile) and has both male and female parts (perfect); the other is stalked (pedicellate) and is usually male
7. Sorghum 1996
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The _spikelets_ are very narrow, sessile or pedicellate, articulated on the pedicel, 1-flowered and 1-glumed.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are shortly pedicellate, pale-green about 1/4 inch long exclusive of the awn.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are elliptic-oblong to linear, 1/8 to 3/4 inch by about 1/20 inch, greenish or tinged with purple, few to about 25 (or sometimes even up to 42) glumed, pedicellate; pedicel is capillary, grooved and angular, with a glandular ring about the middle, spreading sometimes at right angles, rachilla is persistent.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicellate spikelets, involucels consist of unequal, simple or branched bristles.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _inflorescence_ is an open panicle, ovate or oblong, varying in length from 2 to 5 inches; the _rachis_ is slender, smooth or scaberulous, the branches are capillary, whorled and spreading, tip oblique, bearded and bearing a single sessile and two pedicellate spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are small, pedicellate, smooth, usually 6 to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets less compressed, linear or linear-oblong; lateral nerves less prominent; not fascicled, long pedicellate and divaricate when ripe.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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= General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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