Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pedunculate .
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- adjective
pedunculate
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Examples
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It is a beautiful thing to see the high jungle of this most elastic plant bending to the breeze, and displaying, as it moves, its beaded top, looking at a distance like so many flowers; but, when seen nearer, exhibiting _racemes_ (on highly polished stems) of small pedunculated berries, in mitre-looking capsules.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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On the head of the epididymis is a second small stalked appendage (sometimes duplicated); it is named the appendix of the epididymis (pedunculated hydatid), and is usually regarded as a detached efferent duct.
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In connection with the fimbriæ of the uterine tube, or with the broad ligament close to them, there are frequently one or more small pedunculated vesicles.
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It will not infrequently be observed that a pedunculated subglottic growth which is found with difficulty will be pulled upward into view by the gauze swab introduced to remove secretions.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Endothelioma of the trachea or bronchus may also assume a pedunculated form, but is more often sessile.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Sarcoma and carcinoma of the thyroid when perforating the trachea may become pedunculated.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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If all pedunculated cirripedes had become extinct, and they have suffered far more extinction than have sessile cirripedes, who would ever have imagined that the branchiæ in this latter family had originally existed as organs for preventing the ova from being washed out of the sack?
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Look at the common oak, how closely it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of forms, which are almost universally considered by other botanists to be varieties; and in this country the highest botanical authorities and practical men can be quoted to show that the sessile and pedunculated oaks are either good and distinct species or mere varieties.
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The pedunculated oak has its acorns borne upon a footstool.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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So again the two main divisions of cirripedes, the pedunculated and sessile, though differing widely in external appearance, have larvæ in all their stages barely distinguishable.
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