Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pedicel \Ped"i*cel\, n. [F. p['e]dicelle. See {Pedicle}.]
   1. (Bot.)
      (a) 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}.
      (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a
          capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in alg[ae], or a
          sporangium in ferns.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower
      animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of {Aphis
      lion}.

   3. (Anat.)
      (a) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch
          connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
      (b) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the
          antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

Source : WordNet®

pedicel
     n : a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence;
         an ultimate division of a common peduncle [syn: {pedicle}]