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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle;
[syn: pedicel, pedicle]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pedicel \Ped"i*cel\, n. [F. p['e]dicelle. See Pedicle.] 1. (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in alg[ae], or a sporangium in ferns. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pedicel n 1: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle [syn: pedicel, pedicle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedicel": anthrophore, axis, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, bole, cane, carpophore, caryatid, caudex, caulicle, caulis, colonnade, column, culm, dado, die, footstalk, funicule, funiculus, haulm, jack, leafstalk, newel-post, pedestal, peduncle, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, post, queen-post, reed, seedstalk, shaft, socle, spear, spire, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stipe, stock, straw, subbase, surbase, tigella, trunk, upright