Pedicel

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 35

(ped'-is-el). In biology: (a) a branch of a flower-cluster supporting one or more flowers; (b) any little foot, foot-stalk, or foot-like organ. P. -cell, in biology, a cell acting as a foot-stalk to some organ; as the flask -shaped cell which supports the antheridium in the Characea'.