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What is a pedicel?

What is a pedicel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
  2. (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
  3. (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
  4. (mycology) a slender stalk
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They taper to a narrow base or attachment point, which, in some specimens, has a short pedicel.
Leaves are alternate, ovate or ovate-elliptical with a short pedicel and three or four lateral veins.
Grape berries are borne on the end of a stalk, the pedicel, which in turn is borne on the bunchstem, or peduncle.
The right pedicel projects ventrolaterally, and its plane is tilted approximately 30 degrees outward from the median plane.
Water-lily's flower floats on the surface but after flowering the pedicel coils and drags the flower under water where the fruit develops.
A few posterior dorsals have a pair of depressions ventral to the pedicel on the edge of the intervertebral face.

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