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Deerstalker :: Deerstalker (n.) One who practices deerstalking.

Funicle :: Funicle (n.) The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..

Gout :: Gout (n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn..

Stalking-horse :: Stalk-eyed (a.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans..

Stalking :: Stalked (imp. & p. p.) of Stal.

Lepadoid :: Lepadoid (n.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively..

Arborescent :: Arborescent (a.) Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

Verruculose :: Verruculose (a.) Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk..

Deerstalking :: Deerstalking (n.) The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares..

Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..

Somatic :: Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo..

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.

Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..

Bract :: Bract (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises..

Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn..

Flax :: Flax (n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed..

Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..

Ensilage :: Ensilage (v. t.) To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks..

Haum :: Haum (n.) See Haulm, stalk..

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