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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Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower..
Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..
Stalked :: Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Hop :: Hop (n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops)..
Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Cormus :: Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached..
Pedunculata :: Pedunculata (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles..
Acrocarpous :: Acrocarpous (a.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Stillicide :: Still-hunt (n.) A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill..
Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..
Truss :: Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple..
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..
Tubercled :: Tubercled (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk..
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