Pedicel definition

pĕdĭ-səl, -sĕl
A small stalk supporting a single flower in an inflorescence.
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A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence.
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A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule.
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The stalk of a single flower, fruit, leaf, etc.
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The stalk of a grass spikelet.
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A small, stalklike structure or support, as the stalk of a sessile organism or the second segment of an insect's antenna.
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A small, footlike organ or part.
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A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence.
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A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule.
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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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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
pedicel
Plural:
pedicels

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.

  • 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.

  • Each solitary flower of 2.5 to 3cm in diameter is produced on a very short pedicel with a number of pale brown papery scales.

  • 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.

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