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[syn: pedicel, pedicle]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pedicel \Ped"i*cel\, n. [F. p['e]dicelle. See Pedicle.]
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 alg[ae], or a
sporangium in ferns.
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2. (Zool.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower
animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis
lion.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pedicel
n 1: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence;
an ultimate division of a common peduncle [syn: pedicel,
pedicle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedicel":
anthrophore, axis, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, bole,
cane, carpophore, caryatid, caudex, caulicle, caulis, colonnade,
column, culm, dado, die, footstalk, funicule, funiculus, haulm,
jack, leafstalk, newel-post, pedestal, peduncle, petiole,
petiolule, petiolus, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth,
pole, post, queen-post, reed, seedstalk, shaft, socle, spear,
spire, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stipe,
stock, straw, subbase, surbase, tigella, trunk, upright