pedicel

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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.

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Spikelets ovate, not involucrate nor the pedicels bristly.

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

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

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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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