Definition of "pedicel" [ped•i•cel]

• Botany A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence. (noun)
• Botany A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule. (noun)
• See pedicle. (noun)

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• "a common short branchlet, loosely imbricate, distichous and shortly stipitate and the stipe with a purple thickening; pedicel is short, 1/24 to 1/12 inch with sometimes long deciduous hairs and the tip somewhat thickened."
• "The small brown "eye," called the pedicel, at the base of each kernel can be removed with the thumbnail or small scissors."
• "_pedicelled spikelet_ is as long as the sessile, inarticulate on the very thick, short pedicel which is densely or sparsely hairy at the base."