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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Stalker :: Stalked (a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
Celery :: Celery (n.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad..
Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..
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..
Shank :: Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks..
Stalking :: Stalked (imp. & p. p.) of Stal.
Cornstalk :: Cornstalk (n.) A stalk of Indian 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..
Stipitate :: Stipes (n.) An eyestalk.
Angelica :: Angelica (n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica.
Lygodium :: Lygodium (n.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs..
Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A stalk or peduncle.
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..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..
Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant..
Stalker :: Stalker (n.) One who stalks.
Petiolated :: Petiolated (a.) Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera..
Stalk :: Stalk (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step..
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