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Pedicel   Listen
noun
Pedicel  n.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle.
(b)
A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
2.
(Zool.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached.
3.
(Anat.)
(a)
The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
(b)
An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.






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... semi-transparent at maturity, enclosed in a peculiar thin, membranous, inflated, angular calyx, or covering, which is of a pale-green color while the fruit is forming, but at maturity changes to a dusky-white or reddish-drab. The pedicel, or fruit-stem, is weak and slender; and most of the berries fall spontaneously to the ground at the ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr



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