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- 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.
- 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 - n. - A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
- Pedicel - n. - The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
- Pedicel - n. - An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
- Pediceled - a. - Pedicellate.
- Pedicellaria - n. - A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.
- Pedicellariae - pl. - of Pedicellaria
- Pedicellate - a. - Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
- Pedicellina - n. - A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.
- Vaginula - n. - A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
- Basigynium - n. - The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
- Receptacle - n. - The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
- Apophysis - n. - An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
- Ebracteolate - a. - Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.
- 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.
- Gynophore - n. - The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.