pedicel

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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Capsule borne on a slender often elongated pedicel, splitting at maturity into 4 valves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Maxill� without a notch, edge nearly straight, and spines very numerous: caudal appendages exceeding, by half, the length of the pedicel of the sixth cirrus.

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah