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- noun Plural form of
pedicel .
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Examples
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After 10 m. the glands showed a considerable degree of aggregation, and the protoplasm lining the cells of the pedicels was a little separated from the walls.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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Sure enough, I could see large pedicels on each deer, and this was the tipoff that local deer are finally shedding antlers.
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'Fargesii' Large leaves; flowers 2 weeks later than most styrax; greenish purple pedicels; tree like habit
JAPANESE SNOWBELL TREE ACCENTS JAPANESE MAPLE 'CRIMSON QUEEN' Pooky 2009
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'Crystal' - Dark green leaves; white flowers with purple pedicels and sepals; vigorous grower; upright, fastigate habit
JAPANESE SNOWBELL TREE ACCENTS JAPANESE MAPLE 'CRIMSON QUEEN' Pooky 2009
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Apparently, Tim has scored several bucks that grew pedicels -- and therefore antlers -- in odd places.
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Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.
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A considerable quantity of material is lost from each nest, owing to the difficulty of contriving to make initial tendrils engage the leaves and pedicels.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Flowers large and thick on recurved pedicels 4 to 6 lines long.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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After first steadying its larger companion, it removed a separate stem from its back and attached it to one of its pedicels.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Extending their leaf pedicels to their fullest extent, the travelers straightened from their resting positions and became fully vertical to greet the sun.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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