- A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether
solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See
Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. - A slender support of any special organ, as that of a
capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns. - A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or
their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. - The ventral part of each side of the neural arch
connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. - An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the
antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
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