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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A foot-iron. Compare manacle (originally manicle).
  • noun A pedicel or peduncle.
  • noun Specifically — The bony process supporting the antler of the Cervidæ, or deer family.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as pedicel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
  • noun zoology The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
  • noun A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue

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

[Latin pediculus, diminutive of pēs, ped-, foot; see pedicel.]

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From Latin pedīculus ("little foot"), diminutive of pēs.

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