Definition of Pedicels

1. Noun. (plural of pedicel) ¹

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Definition of Pedicels

1. pedicel [n] - See also: pedicel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedicels

pediatric medicine
pediatrician
pediatricians
pediatrics
pediatrist
pediatrists
pedicab
pedicabs
pedicel
pedicellaria
pedicellariae
pedicellate
pedicellation
pedicellina
pedicels (current term)
pedicle
pedicle flap
pedicle graft
pedicle of arch of vertebra
pedicled
pedicles
pedicular
pediculate
pediculates
pediculati
pediculation
pediculi
pediculicide
pediculina

Literary usage of Pedicels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"D. pedicels shorter than the floral to* 9. DD. pedicels much longer than the floral hs 10. BB. Calyx declinate. . bicolor . orientate ..."

2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Like Botrytis, but the pedicels without septa; often producing resting-spores. ... pedicels erect, septate, with whorled branches terminating in a solitary ..."

3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Bulb globose, 7 to 10 flowered, the pedicels shorter than the narrow ... Perianth-segments rotate-spreading in anthesis; pedicels 3 lines long or more; ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Canes armed with few firm prickles mixed with numerous pedicels and sepals ... pedicels and sepals with numerous and conspicuous gland- tipped setae 29. ..."

5. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... with 2 glands at the base: flowers terminal, solitary, with short pedicels, ... obtus?, fascicled: pedicels long, (half an inch,) ..."

6. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"(a) a pedicels in fruit 2 to 5 times lunger thnn the eub-cordate valves Nos. 1, 2 a pedicels in fruit shorter or not longer than the valves, (b) a pedicels ..."

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