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Spindling :: Spindleworm (n.) The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment..

Perichaeth :: Perichaeth (n.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Truss :: Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants..

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

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..

Straw :: Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..

Canaliculated :: Canaliculated (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms..

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

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

Podophthalmite :: Podophthalmite (n.) The eyestalk of a crustacean.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

Podocephalous :: Podocephalous (a.) Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk..

Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..

Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..

Peronate :: Peronate (a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

Stalkless :: Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.

Whipstalk :: Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.

Bract :: Bract (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower..

Kecksy :: Kecksy (n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock..

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