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Ebracteolate :: Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk..

Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..

Pediceled :: Pediceled (a.) Pedicellate.

Halesia :: Halesia (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels..

Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..

Pedicule :: Pedicule (n.) A pedicel.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..

Meconidium :: Meconidium (n.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel..

Pleurocarpous :: Pleurocarpous (a.) Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

Pedicellina :: Pedicellina (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta..

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle..

Entoprocta :: Entoprocta (n. pl.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.

Pedicel :: Pedicel (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..

Basigynium :: Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore..

Ray :: Ray (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius..

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

Apophysis :: Apophysis (n.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses..

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns..

Pedicle :: Pedicle (n.) Same as Pedicel.

Pedicellate :: Pedicellate (a.) Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

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