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Peduncle

noun

The thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body.

Stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower.

A bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain. Synonym: cerebral peduncle.

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"Peduncle" Quotes from Famous Books

... and fixing its hind legs firmly as a pivot, it contrives to turn round and round, and so to strain the fibres of the fruit-stalk until they snap; it then patiently backs down the stem. Sometimes two ants combine their efforts; one, at the base of the peduncle, gnaws at the point of greatest tension, while the other hauls upon it and twists it. And sometimes the ants drop the capsules to their companions below, corresponding with the curious account given by AElian of the way the spikelets of corn are thrown ...

— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay

... or variously fissured, with a broad wool-bearing groove or simply a more or less evident tomentulose apical areola: spine-bearing areola obsolete: flower-bearing areola at the summit of the lower peduncle-like portion of the very young tubercle (thus appearing axillary with reference to the exposed part of the tubercle) and bearing a dense penicellate tuft of long soft hairs which conceals the lower part of the flower and the entire fruit and persists ...

— The North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora • John M. Coulter

Words linked to "Peduncle" : pedicel, pedunculated polyp, nerve tract, tract, pathway, scape, flower stalk, forebrain, prosencephalon, nerve pathway, pedicle, growth