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
Bractlet, a bract of the ultimate grade; as one inserted on a pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk instead of under it.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Caudal Appendages, multi-articulate: in a medium-sized specimen, each contained eight segments, which reached half-way up the upper segment of the pedicel of the sixth cirrus.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
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 Gray, Asa
Rhachis hairy at the base of the flowers, ending in a naked pedicel.
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 Gray, Asa
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