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pedicel

noun as in stalk

noun as in stem

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Others said the animal could be even rarer than that, and attributed the extra growth to damage to the pedicels, the structures in the skull that support antlers.

Spikelets ovate, not involucrate nor the pedicels bristly.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

It differs from the other umbellate-flowered genera of the Lily family in not having its flowers jointed upon their pedicels.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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