Pedicel

Same as: pedicle

1.

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle.

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.

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.