1. Stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower
   "The long peduncle of the poppy swayed in the breeze"
    
2. A bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain
   "The cerebral peduncles connect the cerebral cortex to the brainstem";
   - cerebral peduncle
    
3. The thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body
   "The surgeon carefully removed the polyp by cutting its peduncle"

Derived forms: peduncles

Type of: flower stalk, growth, nerve pathway, nerve tract, pathway, scape, tract

Part of: forebrain, pedunculated polyp, prosencephalon

Encyclopedia: Peduncle