Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, a pedicel, pedicle, or peduncle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pedicel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pedicel .
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Examples
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* (* Van Beneden, who regards the eye-peduncles as limbs, cannot however avoid remarking upon Mysis: "Ce pedicule n'apparait aucunement comme les autres appendices, et parait avoir une autre valeur morphologique.")
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The leaf is almost round, green on the upper side and whitish underneath, with several fibres running from the insertion of the pedicule towards the circumference, it is umbilicated as
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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The pedicule of the flower is enclosed at the bottom with 5 narrow stiff leaves, about 6 inches long.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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