pedicel

Meanings

1. A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
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.
7. The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
8. The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

Etymology

From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).