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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.

Pedicellate.

and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

us of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell- shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley.

snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.

s of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

hyræa. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.

Same as Pedicel.

A pedicel.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.

A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.