(n) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, Syn.cycle rickshaw, Example: boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs
(n) anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth, Syn.order Pediculati
pos>n. a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire; as, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs. Syn. -- cycle rickshaw. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ F. pédicelle. See Pedicle. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Zool.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Anat.) (a) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. (b) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.; pl.Pedicellariæ [ NL. See Pedicel. ] (Zool.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖prop. n. [ NL. See Pedicel. ] (Zool.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. [ 1913 Webster ]
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