different between pedicel vs thalamus

English

Alternative forms

• pedicle

Etymology

From Late Latin ped?cellus, diminutive of ped?culus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of p?s (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?d.?s.?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?d.??s?l/

Noun

pedicel (plural pedicels)

1. (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.

   Synonyms: footstalk, strig

   Coordinate term: peduncle

   • 2004, Martine Dorais et al., 5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking, Jules Janick (editor), Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170,

     Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^{[cuticle cracking]}

2. (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
4. (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
5. (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

   Synonym: petiole

   1. A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
   2. The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
      • 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10,

        Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

   3. The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
6. (zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
   • 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87,

     Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.

Translations

See also

• peduncle
• petiole

Further reading

• pedicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pedicel (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pedicle

Romanian

Etymology

From French pédicelle.

Noun

pedicel n (plural pedicele)

1. pedicel

Declension

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (thálamos, “an inner chamber, a bedroom, a bed”).

Noun

thalamus (plural thalami or thalamuses)

1. (neuroanatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
2. (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
3. A thallus.
4. An inner room or nuptial chamber.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• thalamus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• thalamus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• thalamus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Alternative forms

• talamus

Noun

thalamus m

1. thalamus

French

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (thálamos).

Noun

thalamus m (plural thalamus)

1. (anatomy) thalamus

Derived terms

• thalamique

Further reading

• “thalamus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (thálamos, “inner room”), especially from Homer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?a.la.mus/, [?t??ä??äm?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.la.mus/, [?t???l?mus]

Noun

thalamus m (genitive thalam?); second declension

1. inner room, apartment of a house
2. bedroom, chamber
3. marriage bed
4. (by extension, figuratively) marriage

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• thalamus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thalamus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thalamus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• thalamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• thalamus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thalamus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray