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n. Botany The stalk of an inflorescence or a stalk bearing a solitary flower in a one-flowered inflorescence.

n. Zoology A stalklike structure in invertebrate animals, usually serving as an attachment for a larger part or structure.

n. Anatomy A stalklike bundle of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain.

n. Medicine The stalklike base to which a polyp or tumor is attached.

n. The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.

n. A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.

n. A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.

n. In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna.

n. A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.

n. A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).

n. The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

n. A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

n. A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain

n. In botany, a general flower-stalk supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower: in the latter case the cluster may be regarded as reduced to a single blossom. Gray. See also cut under pedicel.

n. In zoöl., a little foot or foot-like part; a pedicle or pedicel.

n. See the adjective.

n. In zoöl:

n. stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower

n. the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body

n. a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

"a leaf very near its base; peduncle is short; branches of the panicle, filiform, angular, flexuous, bearing one or more spikelets and produced as a bristle beyond the last spikelet."

growth    nerve tract    pathway    tract    nerve pathway   

gland    posterior peduncle of the thalamus    anterior peduncle of the thalamus    inferior peduncle of the thalamus    peduncles of the corpus callosum    internal peduncle of the thalamus    peduncles of the septum lucidum    caudal peduncle    peduncles of the cerebellum    olfactory peduncle   

pedicel   

barnacle   

petiole    arousability    tubercle    angiogram    localisation    anoxia    oedema    vasodilatation    smorgasbord    vasculitis