pedunculatedadj.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97 The angular-bodied Sepia, with long pedunculated tentacula.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 427 Pedunculated flowers, or fruit, with their polypetalous cups.

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. ix. 264 The singular pedunculated eggs from which these larvæ proceed.

1884 H. Thompson Tumours of Bladder 47 A considerable proportion of them [sc. non-cancerous growths] consist of a single growth from the walls of the bladder, more or less pedunculated.

1929 C. Wakeley & N. S. D. Buxton Surg. Pathol. xv. 124 Chondroma..may burst through the shaft and become pedunculated.

1968 J. Bouillon in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. i. 84 The mouth of the medusae has four lips, simple, folded, ramified, or eventually with buttons of pedunculated nematocysts.

1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xii. 244/2 Usually the hamartomas are pedunculated, connected with the posterior portion of the tuber cinereum by a distinct stalk.

1852 A. Henfrey Vegetation Europe iv. vi. 232 The beech, birch, lime, aspen, sessile-flowered oak and mountain ash are found here and there as inhabitants of the woods; the pedunculated oak, hornbeam, elm, sycamore, ash and service-tree are local and rare.

1866 H. Tuttle Origin & Antiq. Physical Man i. 51 After the fir had exhausted the soil, it was succeeded by the sessile oak. This was followed by the pedunculated oak.

2004 Encycl. Brit. Online 6 Jan. at Portugal A zone of Pyrenean oak (Q. pyrenaica) extends above the pedunculated oaks, chestnuts, and pines to an elevation of 5,500 feet.