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Pedicel [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

PED'ICEL

Pedicel [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a pedicel or supported by a pedicel

Pedicel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

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. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

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.

Pediceled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pedicellate.

Pedicellaria [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pedicellaria

Pedicellate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pedicellina [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.