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单词 peduncle
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pedunclen.

Brit. /pᵻˈdʌŋkl/, U.S. /ˈpiˌdəŋk(ə)l/, /piˈdəŋk(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pedunculus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pedunculus stalk, footstalk (1686 or earlier) < classical Latin ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form) + -unculus -uncle suffix. Compare French pédoncule protuberance of the brain (1735 as peduncles , plural), connection between parts of the nervous system (1765), stalk of a flower or fruit (1778). Compare also pedicel n., pedicle n.2Compare post-classical Latin pedunculus louse (6th cent.), alteration of classical Latin pēdiculus pedicle n.1
1. Botany. The stalk of a flower or fruit, or of a cluster of flowers or fruits; (now) spec. the main stalk or primary axis of an inflorescence. Also: a stalk bearing a fungal fructification (rare). Cf. pedicel n. 1, pedicle n.2 1.
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > pedicel or footstalk
stalkc1325
starta1400
tinea1400
petifoot?1440
footling1562
footstalk1562
strig1565
stem1600
tail1613
pedicle1626
pedal1660
pedicel1682
peduncle1702
ray1729
stipes1760
stipe1785
flower-stalk1789
fruit-stalk1796
podium1866
1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 111 Breaking off the Seed from its Peduncle, or Stool.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Peduncle, among botanists, expresses that little stalk which grows from the trunk or branches of a plant, and supports the parts of fructification, the flower and the fruit, or either.
1789 W. Jones Sacontalá vi. ii. 143 The artist had omitted a Sirísha-flower with its peduncle fixed behind her soft ear.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 139 Leaves either opposite or alternate; in the latter case opposite the peduncles.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 39 In all the Pucciniæi, the peduncles are permanent.
1902 Times 19 Sept. 10/4 The flowering-stem and peduncle..exhibited, as a rule, most clearly the primitive structure which in the vegetative parts had become obscured.
1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 99 Flowers on stout peduncles, white; peduncles recurving as the fruit matures.
1993 Wildflower Spring 4/2 I feel that the traditional depiction of a plant, a botanical drawing accurate to the last peduncle..often misses the point about a wildflower.
2. Anatomy. A connection between a particular region of the brain and the rest of the brain; (more generally) a bundle of nerve fibres connecting two parts of the central nervous system. Cf. crus n. 2b.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > other parts of brain
epicranium1603
buttocks of the brain1615
raphe1615
fornix1681
peduncle1707
psalterium1779
mammillary body1828
corona radiata1869
paraphysis1892
1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova II. iii. 482 Part of the second Process or Peduncle of the Cerebellum.
1825 Lancet 9 Apr. 28/1 I had cut the left peduncle... I cut the left crus.
1837 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 127 88 All intermix, in apposition with the ascending and diverging fibres of the peduncles of the cerebral hemispheres.
1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 29 The crura cerebelli, or anterior peduncles of the cerebellum.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 494/1 The main flow was directed anteriorly and superiorly into the interpeduncular cistern between the clivus and the cerebral peduncles.
1990 Brain 113 294 Five showed extensive symmetric bilateral changes:..in 2 they involved the cerebellar peduncles or cerebellar hemispheres.
3. Medicine. A stalk by which a tumour is attached to the body. Cf. pedicle n.2 2c. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > stalk of
peduncle1717
pedicle1787
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part > stalk-like
pedicle1703
peduncle1717
petiole1783
stipes1826
petiolus1890
stipe1891
1717 D. Turner Syphilis ii. 182 The last he said had all sprouted the Week before, rising from a small Peduncle.
1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) xviii. 349 Attached to..the inner surface of the tunica vaginalis testis, by very small processes or peduncles.
1831 Times 11 Apr. 2/6 The operation was commenced by making two el[l]iptical incisions from the outer margin of the peduncle of the tumour to the spinous processes of the pubes on either side.
1992 Angiology 43 250 Fluoroscopy showed a mobile calcified peduncle stemming from the left ovarian vein.
4. Chiefly Zoology. A stalk or stalk-like projection in an animal; spec. (a) the stalk by which various invertebrates such as cirripedes and brachiopods are attached to the substrate; (b) the eyestalk of a crustacean; (c) the petiole connecting the thorax and abdomen of an arthropod, esp. when long and slender. Cf. pedicel n. 2, pedicle n.2 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of
peduncle1763
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > eye-stalk
pedicle1703
peduncle1763
petiole1783
pedicel1826
1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 557 From this body issued a peduncle, or stalk, of ten inches in length, the extreme end of which was fixed to a piece of rock.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 123 Lamarck divides the class Cirripeda into..Pedunculata. Body supported by a tubular moveable peduncle, of which the base is fixed upon marine bodies;..Sessilia. Body destitute of peduncle, and fixed by the shell.
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 405 Peduncles of eyes slender.
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxx. 573 The abdomen is..attached to a slender footstalk or peduncle.
1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 193 Living species of Lingula..clinging by their fleshy peduncles to the wharves.
1968 P. Brien in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. i. i. 1 Some species stand on a peduncle, varying in its length, which anchors itself to the support by means of rhizoids.
1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 44/3 Hydras have an asymmetric polar structure, with a head (the hypostome and the tentacles) at one end and a foot (the peduncle and the basal disk) at the other.
1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe viii. 303/1 The mantle cavity [sc. of cirripedes] with its shell plates forms the head, or capitulum, demarcated from the stalk, or peduncle, anchored to the substratum.

Derivatives

peduncle-like adj.
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1799 Bot. Mag. 13 451 Flowers from two to three, each standing on a peduncle-like tube, enclosed by a bifid spatha.
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1210/2 The peduncle-like post-abdomen forms a receptacle for the ova.
1981 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 68 559 The internode below this leaf may be longer than the others and slightly peduncle-like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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