Pedicel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence.
  • n. Botany A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule.
  • n. See pedicle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
  • n. A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
  • n. A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
  • n. a slender stalk
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns.
  • n. A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
  • n.
  • n. The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
  • n. An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, the ultimate division of a common peduncle; the stalk that supports one flower only when there are several on a peduncle.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy, a little foot or foot-like part; a footlet; a footstalk, pedicle, or peduncle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    peduncle   
    Variant
    peduncle    flower    aphis lion   
    Hyponym
    ray