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Ophthalmite :: Ophthalmite (n.) An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

Angelica :: Angelica (n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica.

Stalk-eyed :: Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads..

Umbel :: Umbel (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule..

Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

Pick :: Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..

Rhaphe :: Rhaphe (n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam..

Podophyllin :: Podophyllin (n.) A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

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..

Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..

Sheaf :: Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw..

Endogenous :: Endogenous (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk..

Podetium :: Podetium (n.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss..

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into hands; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves)..

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

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

Stale :: Stale (v. t.) A stalking-horse.

Sheathed :: Sheathed (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate..

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