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Peduncle
Peduncle meaning
The stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower/fruit. | A short stalk at the base of a reproductive structure of a non-flowering plant. | A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
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Example sentences (7)
After initially feeding on the whale caudal peduncle and fluke, the sharks would investigate the carcass by slowly swimming around it and mouthing several parts before selecting a blubber-rich area.
Inferior cerebellar peduncle integrates proprioceptive info and outputs to the vestibulocerebellum.
In some species the snapping zooids are mounted on a peduncle (stalk), their bird-like appearance responsible for the term – Charles Darwin described these as like "the head and beak of a vulture in miniature, seated on a neck and capable of movement".
Pistillate flowers are borne in a dense spherical many-flowered head which appears on a short stout peduncle from the axils of the current year's growth.
The caudal peduncle is absent and the caudal fin is reduced to a stiff rudder-like structure.
The middle peduncle is the largest of the three and its afferent fibers are grouped into three separate fascicles taking their inputs to different parts of the cerebellum.
The somatosensory cortex decodes nociceptor info to determine the exact location of pain and is where proprioception is brought into consciousness; inferior cerebellar peduncle is all unconscious proprioception.