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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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pedicel
PED'ICEL
Definition 2024
pedicel
pedicel
English
Alternative forms
Noun
pedicel (plural pedicels)
- (botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
- (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
- (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
- 1996: Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel. — Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 10)
- (mycology) a slender stalk
Synonyms
(stalk of individual flower): footstalk, strig
Translations
stalk of an individual flower
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stalk-like body part
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slender stalk
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