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  • English Word Pedestrianized Definition of Pedestrianize
  • English Word Pedestrianizing Definition of Pedestrianize
  • English Word Pedestrious Definition Going on foot; not winged.
  • English Word Pedetentous Definition Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
  • English Word Pedi- Definition Alt. of Pedo-
  • English Word Pedial Definition Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.
  • English Word Pedicel Definition 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.
  • English Word Pedicel Definition A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
  • English Word Pedicel Definition A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
  • English Word Pedicel Definition The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
  • English Word Pedicel Definition An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
  • English Word Pediceled Definition Pedicellate.
  • English Word Pedicellaria Definition 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.
  • English Word Pedicellariae Definition of Pedicellaria
  • English Word Pedicellate Definition Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
  • English Word Pedicellina Definition A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.
  • English Word Pedicle Definition Same as Pedicel.
  • English Word Pedicular Definition Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
  • English Word Pediculate Definition Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.
  • English Word Pediculati Definition An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.
  • English Word Pediculation Definition Phthiriasis.
  • English Word Pedicule Definition A pedicel.
  • English Word Pediculi Definition of Pediculus
  • English Word Pediculina Definition A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.
  • English Word Pediculous Definition Pedicular.
  • English Word Pediculus Definition A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
  • English Word Pediform Definition Shaped like a foot.
  • English Word Pedigerous Definition Bearing or having feet or legs.
  • English Word Pedigree Definition A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
  • English Word Pedigree Definition A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.