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Sphex :: Sphex (n.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand..

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

Pedicellaria :: Pedicellaria (n.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix..

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..

Stem :: Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry..

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..

Raceme :: Raceme (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry..

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

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..

Pedicellariae :: Pedicellariae (pl. ) of Pedicellari.

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..

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

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

Pediceled :: Pediceled (a.) Pedicellate.

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

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

Podophthalmous :: Podophthalmous (a.) Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels..

Pedicule :: Pedicule (n.) A pedicel.

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

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

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