Peduncle

1. n. A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
2. n. The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
3. n. A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.