Meanings of pedicel in English

The impulse is thus always transmitted down nearly the whole length of the pedicel.

The pedicel itself is formed of an elongated cell, surmounted by a short one.

A tentacle consists of a thin, straight, hair-like pedicel, carrying a gland on the summit.

Each flower has a pedicel about 1in.

The pollen, or more correctly, the pollen-tetrads, remain fastened together as club-shaped pollinia usually borne on a slender pedicel.

Their glands are much elongated, and lie embedded on the upper surface of the pedicel, instead of standing at the apex.

The pedicel is somewhat flattened, and is formed of several rows of elongated cells, filled with purple fluid or granular matter.

In removing such a bud from the stick, the central column of the pedicel will often pull out and remain on the stick.

The pedicel, or fruit-stem, is weak and slender; and most of the berries fall spontaneously to the ground at the time of ripening.

Darwin demonstrated that in Orchis and other flowers the pedicel of the pollinium, after its removal from the anther, undergoes a curving movement.

A gland sends its motor impulse with great rapidity down the pedicel of the same tentacle to the basal part which alone bends.

When the pedicel of a tentacle is cut off by a sharp pair of scissors quite close beneath the gland, the tentacle generally becomes inflected.

Their bases are united into a single, rather narrow pedicel, and they thus appear like a great digitate expansion at one end of the bladder.

Many were examined, and the cells of the pedicels were quite transparent.

The pedicels of the tentacles are flattened, or elliptic in section.

The pedicels of the glandular hairs have no power of movement.