peduncle

peduncle is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
2. noun. A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
3. noun. A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
4. noun. a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain
5. noun. stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower
6. noun. the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body

Common word forms

peduncled, peduncles

Words from these letters

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