pedal

i.& t. [PEDAL, 8.] Music : To play with the feet upon a keyboard. pě-da-le-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. pedal ( ium ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] Bot.: The typical tribe of Pedaliaceæ (q.v.). pě-dal-i-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. pedal i (um); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot .: Pedal i ads; an order of Perigynous Exogens, alliance Bignonia les. Soft herbs with a heavy smell; glandular hairs, or vesicles in fours; no stipules: flowers axillary, often with conspicuous bracts; calyx in five pieces; corolla monopetalous, the limb bilabiate; a hypogynous disk. Stamens four, didynamous, with the rudiments of a fifth; ovary of two carpellary leaves, anterior and posterior with respect to the axis; one-celled, or with four to six spurious cells. Fruit drupaceous or capsular; two to six celled, with many seeds when two-celled, and few when many-celled. Found in Africa and the tropics. Tribes Pedalese and Sesa Known genera fourteen, species twenty-five. mee. (Lindley.)