The story
- Late Latin · borrowed frompedīcellus
- English todaypedicel
From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pedicel
Today it means: A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster. Full definition →
Late Latin pedīcellus