pedicel

plural pedicels · alternative pedicle

1. biologyA stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.

   Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^([cuticle cracking])

   2004, Martine Dorais, “5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking”, in Jules Janick, editor, Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170

   Synonyms: footstalk, strig

2. biologyA stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
3. anatomyA stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
4. A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
   1. biologyA petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.

      Synonyms: petiole

   2. biologyThe connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.

      Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

      1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10

      Synonyms: petiole

   3. biologyThe second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.

      Synonyms: petiole

5. biologyThe segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

   Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.

   1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87