pedicel noun. ['pɛdɪs(ǝ)l] L17.
[mod. Latin pedicellus dim. of pediculus PEDICLE.]
1. Botany. A small stalk or stalklike structure in a plant. Orig., the filament of a stamen; now, each of the stalks which bear the individual flowers in a branched inflorescence (cf. PEDUNCLE 1). Also, a main flower-stalk when short or slender. L17.

2. Zoology. A small stalklike structure in an animal; spec. (a) the second joint of an insect's antenna; (b) an eye-stalk of a crustacean; (c) a tube-foot of an echinoderm; (d) the bony process on the skull of a deer from which an antler grows. E19.

■ pedi'cellar adjective pertaining to or of the nature of a pedicel E20.

■ pedicelled adjective having a pedicel, pedicellate E19.

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