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Webster 1913 Edition
Pedicel
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See
Peduncle
, and Illust. of Flower
. (b)
A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns.
2.
(Zool.)
A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of
Aphis lion
. 3.
(Anat.)
(a)
The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
(b)
An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.