peduncle

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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

The Peduncle is of considerable length in some of the species, and rather short in others; it is, in every case, clothed with calcified scales.

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

Peduncle, rather longer than, and not above half as wide as, the capitulum; the latter being nearly 2/10ths of an inch in length: the membrane of the peduncle is thin, naked and structureless.

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

Peduncle, narrower, but generally longer than the capitulum; upper part encased with small calcareous scales, with their apices curved inwards, and overlapping each other.

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.