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pedicel
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)
- (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]
- (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
- (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
- (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
- Synonym: petiole
- A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
- 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.
- 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10,
- The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
- (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.
- 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87,
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)
- pedicel
Declension
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vaginula
English
Etymology
From Latin [Term?], diminutive of vagina (“sheath”).
Noun
vaginula (plural vaginulas or vaginulae)
- (botany) A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
- (botany) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Henslow to this entry?)
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