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Stalk :: Stalk (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun..

Spire :: Spire (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat..

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

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

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

Suctoria :: Suctoria (n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked..

Angelica :: Angelica (n.) An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic..

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.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..

Cornbind :: Cornbind (n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus..

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..

Quitch Grass :: Quitch grass () A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix..

Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..

Veil :: Veil (n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

Pieplant :: Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb..

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

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

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..

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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