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What nursery rhyme character likely had a peduncle as a rooftop?
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#110468. Asked by BRY2K.
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queproblema
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Peter the pumpkin eater's wife.
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife but couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/peter.html
The pumpkin stem is more properly known as a peduncle.
"Monsanto scientist Bill Johnson is trying to breed the perfect pumpkin peduncle.
"Stout and dark green, the modern-day peduncle, known as a stem outside the plant breeding world, is the result of decades of intensive breeding,..."
And, why would Monsanto care about pumpkin peduncles? To make better jack-o-lantern lids!
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-10-31-monsanto-pumpkin_x.htm
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