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Pedicle   Listen
noun
Pedicle  n.  Same as Pedicel.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pedicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... tobacco juice is generally applied to make them loosen their hold. They do not cling firmly to the skin by their legs, although each of these has a pair of sharp and fine claws connected with the tips of the member by means of a flexible pedicle. When they mount to the summits of slender blades of grass, or the tips of leaves, they hold on by their forelegs only, the other three pairs being stretched out so as to fasten onto any animal which comes their way. The smaller of the two species is of a yellowish ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates



Words linked to "Pedicle" :   ray, pedicel, peduncle



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