Definition of stalk

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Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring..

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Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf..
Haystalk :: Haystalk (n.) A stalk of hay.
Acrocarpous :: Acrocarpous (a.) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses..
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
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..
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..
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..
Stalked :: Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..
Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant..
Stalked :: Stalk (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk..
Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..
Stalking :: Stalked (imp. & p. p.) of Stal.
Gout :: Gout (n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn..
Stackage :: Stack (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood..
Lepadoid :: Lepadoid (n.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively..
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