Pedicel



Same as: pedicle
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle.
2.
A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
3.
A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached.
4.
The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
5.
An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.