pedicel

English

A pedicel within a flower cluster

Alternative forms

• pedicle

Etymology

From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ɪs.əl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.əˌsɛl/

Noun

pedicel (plural pedicels)

2. (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.

   Synonyms: footstalk, strig

   Coordinate term: peduncle

   • 2004, Martine Dorais, “5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking”, in Jules Janick, editor, Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170:

     Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^{[cuticle cracking]}

3. (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
5. (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
6. (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

   Synonym: petiole

   1. A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
   2. The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
      • 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10:

        Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

   3. The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
7. (zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
   • 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87:

     Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.

Derived terms

• pedicular

Translations

stalk of an individual flower

• Arabic: تَعْرِيجَة f (taʕrīja), سَاق f (sāq), سُوَيْق (suwayq)
• Catalan: pedicel m
• Dutch: bloemsteel (nl) m
• Esperanto: pedicelo
• Finnish: kukkaperä
• French: pédicelle (fr)
• German: Blütenstiel (de) m, Blütenstängel m
• Italian: pedicello m, gambo (it) m, fusto (it) m, caule m, stelo (it) m
• Maori: tātāpua
• Ottoman Turkish: ذنب (zeneb)
• Polish: szypułka (pl) f
• Romanian: pedicel (ro) n
• Russian: цветоно́жка (ru) f (cvetonóžka)
• Spanish: pedicelo (es) m
• Tagalog: paantangkay
• Ukrainian: квітконі́жка f (kvitkonížka)
• Welsh: blodeugoes f

stalk-like body part

• Arabic: سُوَيْق (suwayq)
• Spanish: pedicelo (es) m

slender stalk of a fungus

• Spanish: pedicelo (es) m

See also

• peduncle
• petiole

Further reading

• pedicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pedicel (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pedicle

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédicelle.

Noun

pedicel n (plural pedicele)

1. pedicel

Declension

Declension of pedicel

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pedicel	pedicelul	(niște) pedicele	pedicelele
genitive/dative	(unui) pedicel	pedicelului	(unor) pedicele	pedicelelor
vocative	pedicelule		pedicelelor