Pedicel vs. Petiole

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

Petiolenoun

(botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.

Petiolenoun

(entomology) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps.

Petiolenoun

(entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.

Petiolenoun

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

Petiolenoun

A stalk or peduncle.

Petiolenoun

the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf