PEDICEL
\pˈɛdɪsə͡l], \pˈɛdɪsəl], \p_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_s_əl]\
Definitions of PEDICEL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
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A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
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The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
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An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
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A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
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The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
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An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
By Noah Webster.
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Any slender supporting base; stalk; a stock supporting various special organs; in seed nice; plants, a flower stalk bearing one flower.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).