Definition of "pedicel"

(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.  quotations  examples

(mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.

(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.  examples

(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

1. A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.  examples

2. The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

     1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10

3. The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.  examples

(zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.  quotations