PEDUNCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peduncle mean? 

• PEDUNCLE (noun)
  The noun PEDUNCLE has 3 senses:

1. the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body

2. stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower

3. a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

  Familiarity information: PEDUNCLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDUNCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("peduncle" is a kind of...):

growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))

Holonyms ("peduncle" is a part of...):

pedunculated polyp (a polyp with a stalk or peduncle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("peduncle" is a kind of...):

flower stalk; scape (erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peduncle"):

pedicel; pedicle (a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cerebral peduncle; peduncle

Hypernyms ("peduncle" is a kind of...):

nerve pathway; nerve tract; pathway; tract (a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain)

Holonyms ("peduncle" is a part of...):

forebrain; prosencephalon (the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube)

 Context examples 

In the body, a structure that has a peduncle (a stalk or stem) or is attached to another structure by a peduncle.

(Pedunculate, NCI Dictionary)

It is composed of the dorsal cochlear nucleus located on the dorsolateral surface of the inferior peduncle and the ventral (or accessory) cochlear nucleus located on the ventral aspect of the inferior peduncle.

(Cochlear Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Develops from the middle of the 3 primary vesicles of the embryonic neural tube, between the prosencephalon and rhombencephalon, later forming the tectum and cerebral peduncles.

(Mesencephalon, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

The midbrain contains the cerebral peduncles, oculomotor, trochlear and red nuclei, substantia nigra and various other nuclei and tracts.

(Mesencephalon, NCI Thesaurus)

A large blood vessel formed by the anterior and deep middle cerebral veins and small branches from the insula and cerebral peduncles which receives tributaries from the temporal horn and the medial temporal lobe and is joined by the inferior striate veins.

(Basal Cerebral Vein of Rosenthal, NCI Thesaurus)