pedicellate

American  

[ped-uh-sel-it, -ayt, ped-uh-suh-lit, -layt] / ˌpɛd əˈsɛl ɪt, -eɪt, ˈpɛd ə sə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having a pedicel or pedicels.

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Other Word Forms

• pedicellation
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of pedicellate

First recorded in 1820–30; pedicel + -ate ¹

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pedicellate

The spikelets are small, pedicellate, smooth, usually 6 to 14-flowered, pale but often tinged with red, the rachilla is jointed between the flowering glumes, and breaks away from above downwards.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

In Trichobasis, the spores are of a similar character, sub-globose, and at first pedicellate; but there are no surrounding cysts, and the colour is more usually brown, although sometimes yellow.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicellate spikelets, involucels consist of unequal, simple or branched bristles.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame

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