Definition of pedicel

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

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Pleurocarpous :: Pleurocarpous (a.) Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.
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..
Apophysis :: Apophysis (n.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses..
Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
Entoprocta :: Entoprocta (n. pl.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower..
Pediceled :: Pediceled (a.) Pedicellate.
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..
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..
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..
Trachelidan :: Trachelidan (n.) Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
Sphaeridium :: Sphaeridium (n.) A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ..
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..
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..
Pedicellariae :: Pedicellariae (pl. ) of Pedicellari.
Vaginula :: Vaginula (n.) A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most 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..
Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
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..
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