noun the ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
2. pedicel ·noun an outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
3. pedicel ·noun a slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. ·see ·illust. of aphis lion.
4. pedicel ·noun a slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
5. pedicel ·noun a stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. ·see peduncle, and ·illust. of flower.