Pedicel vs. Receptacle — What's the Difference?

A small stalk or stalklike part bearing a single flower in an inflorescence.

A container that holds items or matter.

A support for a fern sporangium or moss capsule.

(Botany) The expanded tip of a flower stalk or axis that bears the floral parts or the florets of the flower head.

See pedicle.

(Electronics) A fitting connected to a power supply and equipped to receive a plug.

(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.

A container.

(mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.

(botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.

(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.

In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.

(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

(phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).

A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.

(zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.

The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.

A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.

The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

(zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.

The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

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.

A container that is used to put or keep things in

A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

Enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts

The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

An electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert

A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle