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Pennatulacea :: Pennatulacea (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria..

Scape :: Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like..

Oppositifolious :: Oppositifolious (a.) Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle..

Subpellucid :: Subpedunculate (a.) Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle..

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..

Triflorous :: Triflorous (a.) Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle..

Eyestalk :: Eyestalk (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip..

Suprabranchial :: Supra-axillary (a.) Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous..

Flocculus :: Flocculus (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

Interpedencular :: Interpedencular (a.) Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum..

Anatifa :: Anatifa (n.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia..

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

Terebratula :: Terebratula (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell..

Peduncle :: Peduncle (n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland..

Umbel :: Umbel (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids..

Three-sided :: Three-sided (a.) Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp..

Podocephalous :: Podocephalous (a.) Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk..

Brachiopoda :: Brachiopoda (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle..

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