Pedicel vs Petiole - What's the difference?
pedicel | petiole | Synonyms |
(botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
(senseid)(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
* 1996': Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the '''pedicel . — Michael J. Roberts, ''Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 10)
(mycology) a slender stalk
(botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
(entomology) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps.
(entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
Petiole is a synonym of pedicel.
In botany terms the difference between pedicel and petiole
is that pedicel is a stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster while petiole is the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.pedicel
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Alternative forms
* pedicleNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
(stalk of individual flower) footstalk, strigExternal links
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