Pedicel

Definition: Pedicel

Pedicel

Noun

1. A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle.

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	The final division of the rachis which forms the stalk or stem of the berry. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A pedicel is the bead-like shape formed from the first few abdominal segments of an ant's abdomen. In wasps, by contrast, the abdomen is connected tightly to the thorax.

Synonym: Pedicel

Synonym: pedicle (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pendency	Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pedicel

English words defined with "pedicel": Basigynium ♦ Ebracteolate ♦ Footstalk ♦ Gynophore ♦ Lucernaria ♦ Meconidium ♦ Pedicellaria, Pedicellate, Pedicellina, Pedicule ♦ Sphaeridium, Sphex ♦ Trachelidan ♦ Vaginula. (references)

Etymologies containing "pedicel": Pedicellaria, Pedicellina. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pedicel" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (pedicel).

"Pedicel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pedicel" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "pedicel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kërcell (cane, footstalk, haulm, pedicle, stalk, stem, Stipe). (various references)

Arabic		‏سويقة (petiole, stalk, stem), ‏رجيلة (peduncle, stalk). (various references)

Bulgarian		стъбълце (pedicle, peduncle). (various references)

Danish		druestilk. (various references)

Dutch		bloemsteel (flower stalk, peduncule, stalk, stem, stem-stalk). (various references)

Finnish		kukkaperä. (various references)

French		pédicelle. (various references)

German		Beerenstielchen. (various references)

Greek		κοτσάνι ρώγας, κοτσάνι (socket, stalk, stem, stub), μίσχοσ άνθουσ, ποδίσκος ραγός. (various references)

Hungarian		kocsány (footstalk, pedicle, shank, stalk, stem). (various references)

Italian		pedicello. (various references)

Pig Latin		edicelpay

Portuguese		pedicelo (pedicle, peek), pediatra (paediatrician, paediatrics, paediatrist, paeon, pediatrician, pediatrics), pedículo (pedicular, pediculus, peduncle). (various references)

Romanian		pedicul, pedicel. (various references)

Russian		стебелек (stalk), ножка (knuckle, leg, pedicle, peduncle, stalk, stem, tootsy, tootsy-wootsy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		peteljka (pedicle, peduncle, petiole). (various references)

Spanish		pedicelo, peciolo, rabillo (flower stalk, peduncule, shank, stalk, stem, stem-stalk). (various references)

Swedish		blomskaft (pedicle). (various references)

Turkish		sapçık (peduncle), çiçek sapı (pedicle, peduncle). (various references)

Ukranian		стебельце (pedicle, peduncle), квітоніжка (pedicle, peduncle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pedicel": pedicellate, pedicels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pedicel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pedicled, pedisel, Pekinel, Pericle, periculo, pudica. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pedicel" (pronounced 'Ped"i*cel'): Auncel, Barbicel, Carcel, Chancel, Involucel, Lenticel, Lioncel, Pencel, Piercel, Precel, Radicel, Sarcel, tercel, Vorticel. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pedicle.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p"
	-1 letter: ceiled, cleped, decile, pieced.
	-2 letters: clepe, deice, edile, elide, piece, piled, plied.
	-3 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, cepe, clip, deep, deil, dele, deli, dice, diel, eide, epic, iced, idle, lice, lied, lipe, peed, peel, pele, pice, pied, pile, pled, plie.
	-4 letters: cee, cel, cep, dee, del, die, dip, eel, eld, ice, led, lee, lei, lid.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p"
	+1 letter: cheliped, eclipsed, pedicels, pedicled, pedicles, penciled.
	+2 letters: calipered, chelipeds, pencilled, presliced, respliced.
	+3 letters: callipered, decrepitly, despicable, epidemical, explicated, fieldpiece, fireplaced, helicopted, pediculate, prechilled, predicable, premedical, recompiled, replicated, velocipede.
	+4 letters: deceptional, deceptively, depreciable, diencephala, fieldpieces, pedicellate, pediculates, pediculoses, pitchblende, placekicked, polemicized, predicables, predictable, psychedelia, psychedelic, reduplicate, specialised, specialized, supercoiled, velocipedes.
	+5 letters: codeveloping, complexified, complexioned, complimented, decipherable, depoliticize, diencephalic, diencephalon, displaceable, displacement, encyclopedia, encyclopedic, epidemically, glycopeptide, helicoptered, kaleidoscope, peccadilloes, pickerelweed, pitchblendes, placidnesses, plerocercoid, predictively, predilection, psychedelias, psychedelics, reduplicated, reduplicates, reproducible, stepchildren.
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