Definition of stalk

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Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..

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Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Stubbled :: Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle..
Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..
Gomuti :: Gomuti (n.) A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo..
Sentinel :: Sentinel (n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab..
Haystalk :: Haystalk (n.) A stalk of hay.
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads..
Stalked :: Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk of a pistil.
Kecksy :: Kecksy (n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock..
Podophthalmia :: Podophthalmia (n. pl.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda..
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..
Stem :: Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached..
Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A stalk or peduncle.
Deerstalker :: Deerstalker (n.) One who practices deerstalking.
Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant..
Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..
Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant..
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