Pedicel

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Pedicel ·noun An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

III. Pedicel ·noun A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. ·see ·Illust. of Aphis lion.

IV. Pedicel ·noun A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.

V. Pedicel ·noun 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.