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