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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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Grape berries are borne on the end of a stalk, the pedicel, which in turn is borne on the bunchstem, or peduncle.
They taper to a narrow base or attachment point, which, in some specimens, has a short pedicel.
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.
Every inflorescence of a marked branch was individually identified with a numbered tag tied to its pedicel and its number of flowers recorded.
Near the base of the pedicel, the transverse process projects lateroventrally.

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