Definition of Pedicellate

1. a. Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Definition of Pedicellate

1. Adjective. Having (or supported by) a pedicel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedicellate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pedicellate

1. Of or pertaining to the Pediculati. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedicellate

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

Literary usage of Pedicellate

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

1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Male and female flowers cohering, or rooting as distinct plants. Capsule either short-pedicellate and erect or on a longer slender curved pedicel, ..."

2. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"... branches minutely downy, germens pedicellate linear-subulate glabrous, style elongated, stigmas bifid, scales fringed with a few long silky hairs. EB t. ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Stems 2 to 6 feet high; the branches terminated by small i'ln5~ ters of mostly pedicellate heads: leaves usually 3-nerved. glabrous and smooth even on t'ie ..."

4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"spikelike branches, one spikelet is sessile the other pedicellate. like; ... Spikelets in lax panicles, pedicellate, awnless. 2. P. Crus-galK. ..."

5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... smooth, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath ; aments coa-tu- neous ; ovaries ovoid-subulate, smooth, pedicellate ; style elongated. Willd. Sp. 4. p. ..."

6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Flowers pedicellate or nearly sessile, included in the involucre or rarely exserted, 6-parted or -cleft. Stamens 9, rarely 3 or 6. ..."

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