pedicel

IPA: pɛdˈisʌɫ

(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
(mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
(zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

Examples of "pedicel" in Sentences

“Gulgong” (EUCALYPTUS ROBUSTA), the pedicel of which is twirled between the thumb and second finger.
Var. angustifolia; leaves linear; calyx and pedicel glabrous; corolla outside glabrous or scantily hairy.
As the traveler rotated, this extended pedicel began to swing in great arcs, even though there was no wind.
The small brown "eye," called the pedicel, at the base of each kernel can be removed with the thumbnail or small scissors.
It is a question of a little more green here, a slightly sharper indent there, a hint of variegation on a leaf or pedicel.
Including a little of the stem, or pedicel, directly above the fruit when harvesting it helps reduce spoiling (Figure 15.2).
_pedicelled spikelet_ is as long as the sessile, inarticulate on the very thick, short pedicel which is densely or sparsely hairy at the base.
The flowers are small (though larger than those of many cultivated yams), about 3 mm long, closely appressed to the pedicel in long axillary or terminal racemes.
a common short branchlet, loosely imbricate, distichous and shortly stipitate and the stipe with a purple thickening; pedicel is short, 1/24 to 1/12 inch with sometimes long deciduous hairs and the tip somewhat thickened.