The small brown "eye," called the pedicel, at the base of each kernel can be removed with the thumbnail or small scissors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nixtamal Para Pozole: Pozole Corn] Reference

Branches with pedicel and spikelets drooping and not appressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Spikelets are solitary, binate or fasciculate, 2-flowered, jointed on the pedicel and awned.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The pedicel is jointed in some genera and in others it is continuous with the spikelet and not jointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

“Gulgong” (EUCALYPTUS ROBUSTA), the pedicel of which is twirled between the thumb and second finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

As the traveler rotated, this extended pedicel began to swing in great arcs, even though there was no wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

In some species both these organs are sessile on the main filament, in others they appear on a short pedicel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

Including a little of the stem, or pedicel, directly above the fruit when harvesting it helps reduce spoiling (Figure 15.2).    From Wordnik.com.  [14. Saving seeds for planting] Reference

Flagellum: that part of the antenna beyond the pedicel: a whip or whip-like process: the tail-like process of a spermatozoön.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

The pedicel, or fruit-stem, is weak and slender; and most of the berries fall spontaneously to the ground at the time of ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Another flower of the same plant bore on its pedicel a small leaf, which was doubtless the bract raised above its ordinary position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Even the nectary which is adherent to the upper surface of the pedicel in the normal flower disappears -- sometimes completely, at other tunes partially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Spikelets are closely imbricating in two series, sessile, solitary, the upper reduced to a small pedicel 1 - to 2-flowered, the lowest few on the spike, imperfect, male or neuter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The pedicel itself is formed of an elongated cell, surmounted by a short one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

The impulse is thus always transmitted down nearly the whole length of the pedicel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

A tentacle consists of a thin, straight, hair-like pedicel, carrying a gland on the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

File: AnacardiumOccidentaleRipened. jpg | ... and then the pedicel enlarges into the cashew apple.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The CPI reported that the constriction between calyx and pedicel found in C. chinense was present on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fiery Foods and Barbecue Supersite] Reference

Var. angustifolia; leaves linear; calyx and pedicel glabrous; corolla outside glabrous or scantily hairy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Their glands are much elongated, and lie embedded on the upper surface of the pedicel, instead of standing at the apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

What is unusual is that, shortly before the seed matures, the pedicel (stalk) enlarges and becomes a sweet cashew apple.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A gland sends its motor impulse with great rapidity down the pedicel of the same tentacle to the basal part which alone bends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

The pedicel is somewhat flattened, and is formed of several rows of elongated cells, filled with purple fluid or granular matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

And then the pedicel enlarges into the cashew apple.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

ROBUSTA), the pedicel of which is twirled between the thumb and second finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

A stout pedicel, which holds out the pretty white blossom in a nearly horizontal way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

1/6 inch; pedicel slender, terete 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Inflorescences 25-80-flowered, dense; pedicel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference