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.

From The Guardian

Corolla ovate to globular, 4–5-toothed; filaments glabrous; anthers 2-awned on the back, included; berry 4–5-celled; leaves deciduous; flowers on drooping pedicels, solitary or few together, appearing with or after the leaves; mostly glabrous.

From Project Gutenberg

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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Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.

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