Pedicel meaning

pĕd'ĭ-səl, -sĕl'
A small stalk supporting a single flower in an inflorescence.
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(botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
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(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
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(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
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(mycology) A slender stalk.
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Origin of pedicel

  • New Latin pedicellus diminutive of Latin pediculus diminutive of pēs ped- foot ped- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From post-classical Latin pedicellus, from Latin pediculus.
    From Wiktionary

Pedicel Sentence Examples

  • Spikelets one-flowered, rarely two-flowered as in Zea, falling from the pedicel entire or with certain joints of the rachis at maturity.

  • Munro supplemented this by another character easier of verification, and of even greater constancy, in the articulation of the pedicel in the Paniceae immediately below the glumes; whilst in Poaceae this does not occur, but the axis of the spikelet frequently articulates above the pair of empty basal glumes.

  • 544) A closely allied species, Piper Clusii, produces the African cubebs or West African black-pepper, the berry of which is smoother than that of common cubebs and usually has a curved pedicel.

  • In describing a branching inflorescence, it is common to speak of the rachis as the primary floral axis, its branches as the secondary floral axes, their divisions as the tertiary floral axes, and so on; thus avoiding any confusion that might arise from the use of the terms rachis, peduncle and pedicel.

  • The sporangium is attached to the enlarged distal end of its pedicel, from which it hangs down, so as to suggest an anatropous ovule on its funiculus.

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