peduncularadj.
/pᵻˈdʌŋkjᵿlə/, U.S. /pəˈdəŋkjələr/ Botany, Zoology, and Medicine.
Of, relating to, or of the nature of a peduncle. Formerly also: †having a peduncle or peduncles, pedunculate (obsolete).
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [adjective] > having or resembling a footstalk
shanked1593
pedunculated1752
pedicellate1760
pedunculate1760
pedicellated1770
peduncled1782
pedicelled1784
stiped1785
stipitate1785
peduncular1789
stipiform1821
stipitated1822
stipitiform1855
pedicellar1900
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > stalk
pediculated1754
peduncular1822
pediculate1851
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > slender or pointed > of pedicel or stalk-like part
pedicellate1760
pedicellated1770
pedicled1771
peduncular1822
1789 J. Miller Illustr. Sexual Syst. Linnæus II. 40 Peduncularis, Fig. 4 Peduncular.
1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 51* Verticils peduncular, many-flowered: dichotomous.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 462 To restrain polypus as a..term to peduncular excrescences in the nostrils.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 694 The body of the Brachiopod lies at the..peduncular end of the shell.
1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Sept. 635/1 In a separate category belong those uncommon cases of ‘peduncular hallucinosis’ described by Lhermitte. This syndrome comprises as a rule mild confusion and persistent visual hallucinations.
1961 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson & J. Sankey Land Invertebr. iv. 54 Antennae fairly long with rather short spines. Last peduncular segment four times as long as wide.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xvii. 304 Tunas have lunate tails and multiple keels, with lateral extensions of the peduncular vertebrae supporting the keels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1789