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A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

er lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

hape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

t made of cut flowers. (b) (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers. -- Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.

wort (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals o…

Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.

h a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

ports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

he seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

A stalk or peduncle.

Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.