pedicellate
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əˈsɛl
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pedicel (ˈpɛdɪˌsɛl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence |
| 2. | biology Also called: peduncle any short stalk bearing an organ or organism |
| 3. | the second segment of an insect's antenna |
| [C17: from New Latin pedicellus, from Latin pedīculus, from pēs foot] | |
| pedicellate | |
| —adj | |
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Pedicellate
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So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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pedicellate ped·i·cel·late (pěd'ĭ-sěl'ĭt, -āt')
adj.
Having or supported by a pedicel or pedicle.
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Example sentences
The flowers are pedicellate and born in axillary racemes.
The first is an unbranched, elongated inflorescence with pedicellate flowers maturing from the bottom up.
Flowers are sessile to pedicellate, each subtended by a pair of hyaline-scarious bracts.
Flowers are greenish or brownish, sessile to pedicellate, each subtended by a pair of hyaline-scarious bracts.
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