Pedicel (Noun)
Meaning
A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- A single delicate flower grew from the tip of each slender pedicel, creating a dainty inflorescence.
- In this inflorescence, multiple flowers arise from short pedicels of almost equal length.
- On a stalked fruit like the mulberry, each drupe is connected to a tiny pedicel at the tip.
- Within this tightly clustered inflorescence, many short pedicels arose, with small yellow flowers crowding them.
- Tender buds nestled in leafy clusters and perched atop wiry pedicels at each axis of a developing raceme.