PEDICEL Synonyms

• a whip used to inflict punishment

• a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• someone who travels on foot by running

• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a trained athlete who competes in foot races

• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

• a long narrow carpet

• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

• a new branch

• the act of shooting at targets

• hit with a missile from a weapon

• kill by firing a missile

• fire a shot; release

• make a film or photograph of something

• send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

• run or move very quickly or hastily

• move quickly and violently

• throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

• record on photographic film

• emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully

• cause a sharp and sudden pain in

• force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

• variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

• throw dice, as in a crap game

• spend frivolously and unwisely

• score

• utter fast and forcefully

• measure the altitude of by using a sextant

• produce buds, branches, or germinate

• give an injection to

• material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

• a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush

• the act of following prey stealthily

• a stiff or threatening gait

• walk stiffly

• follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

• go through (an area) in search of prey

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

• the tube of a tobacco pipe

• front part of a vessel or aircraft

• a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

• grow out of, have roots in, originate in

• cause to point inward

• stop the flow of a liquid

• remove the stem from

• slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

• a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year

• branch out in a twiglike manner

• understand, usually after some initial difficulty

• a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

• the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf

• A stalk (such as a peduncle or pedicel) that supports another structure.

• a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle