pedicel
IPA: pɛdˈisʌɫ
noun
- (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower 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.
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Examples of "pedicel" in Sentences
- The stalk of each single flower is called a pedicel.
- Flowers on pedicels, erect, but drooping to the ends.
- There is a single tiny bract at the base of each pedicel.
- The fruit is a tiny podlike silique on a straight pedicel.
- The inflorescence is a series of flowers, each on a curved pedicel.
- This species has pedicels which are in the axils and are pendulous.
- The inflorescence is a solitary flower borne on a threadlike pedicel.
- Each flower is 4 to 10 millimeters long and is borne on a long pedicel.
- Bracteoles occasionally subtend the pedicels, but they are usually absent.
- The flower at the curved tip of the pedicel is just a few millimeters wide.
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