peduncle
peduncled
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a word derived from
peduncle.
Example Sentences
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Very weak and slender; leaves 2´´ wide or less; staminate spike usually peduncled; pistillate 2–3, scattered, few-flowered, lowest drooping; perigynium very long-pointed.
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
Antheridia in a short peduncled disk paleaceous beneath.
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
Male spikelets are 1- to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Thallus 1–2´ long, with conspicuous white pores above, and dark purple scales beneath; usually monœcious; peduncle ½–1´ high; capsules conspicuous, dark purple; antheridia in a peduncled disk-like receptacle.
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
Like the hobble-bush, this one produces an outer circle of showy, neutral flowers, as advertisements, on its peduncled, flat cluster; and small, perfect ones, to reproduce the species, in June or July.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
