Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) 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..

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns..

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals..

Pediceled :: Pediceled (a.) Pedicellate.

Pedicellaria :: Pedicellaria (n.) 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 :: Pedicellariae (pl. ) of Pedicellari.

Pedicellate :: Pedicellate (a.) Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

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

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