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peduncle

[pi-duhng-kuhl, pee-duhng-] / pɪˈdʌŋ kəl, ˈpi dʌŋ- /


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Peduncle elongation was reached on the second-earliest date since records of bud stages began in 2004.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

Peduncle, dark orange-brown, with the uppermost part under the capitulum bright orange all round; the chitine membrane itself being thus coloured.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The Peduncle is rather short and narrow; it blends into the capitulum, and is not, in some of the species, separated from it by any distinct line; the surface of attachment is rather wide.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

C. Peduncle of racemes enclosed in spathiform leaf-sheaths.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Peduncle, broad, barely as long as the capitulum.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles




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