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Definition of "pedunculate" []

  • Having or supported on a peduncle. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pedunculate" in a sentence
  • "The vegetation of the Carpathians displays a pronounced zonation: the foothills are mostly covered by mixed deciduous forests, dominated by pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), lime (Tilia cordata) and hornbean (Carpinus betulus) in the north, and by various oak species (Quercus sessilis, Q. cerris, Q. pubescens, Q. frainetto) in the south."
  • "The model explains 78.3% of the variance for sessile oak and 74.3% for pedunculate oak."
  • "This includes some monthly parameters of year y year of ring formation, and also some parameters of the years y-1 to y-4 for sessile oak and y-1 to y-5 for pedunculate oak."
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