2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pedicel \Ped"i*cel\, n. [F. p['e]dicelle. See {Pedicle}.]
1. (Bot.)
a 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}.
b A slender support of any special organ, as that of a
capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in alg[ae], or a
sporangium in ferns.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower
animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of {Aphis
lion}.
3. (Anat.)
a The ventral part of each side of the neural arch
connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
b An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the
antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pedicel
n : a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence;
an ultimate division of a common peduncle
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