Pedicel vs. Peduncle

Pedicelnoun

(botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.

Pedicelnoun

(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.

Pedicelnoun

(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.

Pedicelnoun

(mycology) a slender stalk

Pedicelnoun

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.

Pedicelnoun

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

Pedicelnoun

The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

Pedicelnoun

a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle

Pedunclenoun

(botany) The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.

Pedunclenoun

(botany) A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.

Pedunclenoun

(anatomy) A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.

Pedunclenoun

(anatomy) In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna.

Pedunclenoun

(anatomy) A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.

Pedunclenoun

(zoology) A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).

Pedunclenoun

The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

Pedunclenoun

A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

Pedunclenoun

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Pedunclenoun

the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body

Pedunclenoun

stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower

Pedunclenoun

a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain