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.
noun
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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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Etymology
Origin of pedicel
1670–80; < New Latin pedicellus, diminutive of Latin pediculus a little foot. See pedicle
Example Sentences
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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Capsule dorsal, pod-like, erect or curved outward, more or less perfectly 2-valved, usually stomatose, tapering into a pedicel or often sessile with a bulbous base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The most reduced type of flower is that described in Euphorbia, where the male consists of one stamen separated from its pedicel by a joint, and the female of a naked tricarpellary pistil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Spikes pectinate, of very many spikelets, oblong or linear, very dense, solitary and terminal or few in a raceme; sterile flowers 1–3 on a short pedicel, neutral, consisting of 1–3 scales and awns.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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