Crossword-Solution: PEDICLES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They quivered; the slender pedicles cupping, the waned lights swayed; the lights lifted and soared, upright, to their backs.

Some of these may have small pedicles, and as such, of course, are more likely to become loosened and fly off into the blood stream.

The sugar-maples were beginning to unfold their leaves and to dangle their emerald gold flowers from long, drooping pedicles.

With the exception of the stamens, all parts of the inflorescence, inclusive of the long pedicles, are milk-white, and the perfume is as sweet and refreshing as an English spring posy.

But the insect world, taken at large, appears as an intenser life, that has struggled itself loose and become emancipated from vegetation, _Floræ liberti, et libertini!_ If for the sake of a moment’s relaxation we might indulge a Darwinian flight, though at the risk of provoking a smile, (not, I hope, a frown) from sober judgment, we might imagine the life of insects an apotheosis of the petals, stamina, and nectaries, round which they flutter, or of the stems and pedicles, to which they adhere.