pedicel
Americannoun
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Botany.
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a small stalk.
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an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
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one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
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Zoology. a pedicle or peduncle.
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the stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence
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Also called: peduncle. biology any short stalk bearing an organ or organism
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the second segment of an insect's antenna
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Origin of pedicel
1670–80; < New Latin pedicellus, diminutive of Latin pediculus a little foot. See pedicle
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Pedicel, ped′i-sel, n. the little footstalk by which a single leaf or flower is fixed on the twig or on the cluster of which it forms a part—also Ped′icle.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Pedicel 1/3 as long as the sessile spikelets; nodes usually glabrous; ligule usually short and membranous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
That which supports each separate flower of the cluster is a Partial peduncle, and is generally called a Pedicel.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Pedicel, the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster, 73.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
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