pedicel

noun8

1. •
   A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.

   • Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^([cuticle cracking]) — 2004
2. •
   A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
3. •
   A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
4. •
   A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
5. •
   A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
6. •
   The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.

   • Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel. — 1996
7. •
   The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

   • Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns. — 1963
8. •
   The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.