Definition of "peduncle" []

• Botany The stalk of an inflorescence or a stalk bearing a solitary flower in a one-flowered inflorescence. (noun)
• Zoology A stalklike structure in invertebrate animals, usually serving as an attachment for a larger part or structure. (noun)
• Anatomy A stalklike bundle of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain. (noun)
• Medicine The stalklike base to which a polyp or tumor is attached. (noun)

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• "a leaf very near its base; peduncle is short; branches of the panicle, filiform, angular, flexuous, bearing one or more spikelets and produced as a bristle beyond the last spikelet."
• "Some of its axons pass backward to the abducent nucleus, this bundle is known as the peduncle of the superior olivary nucleus."
• "The widely-cleft, shell-less test is supported upon a thick peduncle, which is immersed in the skin of the"