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Pedunculated

Pedunculate \Pe*dun"cu*late\, Pedunculated \Pe*dun"cu*la`ted\, a. (Biol.) Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pedunculated

1752, from Modern Latin pedunculatus, from pedunculus (see peduncle).

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pedunculated

a. pedunculate

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Usage examples of "pedunculated".

If all pedunculated cirripedes had become extinct, and they have already suffered far more extinction than have sessile cirripedes, who would ever have imagined that the branchiae in this latter family had originally existed as organs for preventing the ova from being washed out of the sack?

So again the two main divisions of cirripedes, the pedunculated and sessile, which differ widely in external appearance, have larvae in all their several stages barely distinguishable.

Some of them were floating milk calculi, others tiny pedunculated tumours, injuries to the teat lining, all sorts of things.

It was a pedunculated growth, and it was undoubtedly vesical and not expelled from some ovarian source through the urinary passage, as sometimes occurs.

Warner, in a report of the examination of 50,000 children, quoted by Ballantyne, describes 33 with supernumerary auricles, represented by sessile or pedunculated outgrowths in front of the tragus.