pedicel
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛd.ɪs.əl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɛd.əˌsɛl/
Noun
editpedicel (plural pedicels)
- (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
- 2004, Martine Dorais, “5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking”, in Jules Janick, editor, Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170:
- Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.[cuticle cracking]
- (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
- (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
- (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
- Synonym: petiole
- A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
- The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
- 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10:
- Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.
- The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
- (zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
- 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87:
- Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editstalk of an individual flower
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- pedicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pedicel (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pédicelle.
Noun
editpedicel n (plural pedicele)
Declension
editDeclension of pedicel
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pedicel | pedicelul | (niște) pedicele | pedicelele |
genitive/dative | (unui) pedicel | pedicelului | (unor) pedicele | pedicelelor |
vocative | pedicelule | pedicelelor |
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