Definition of stalk

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Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

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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..
Stalker :: Stalked (a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
Stalker :: Stalker (n.) One who stalks.
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
Acrocarpous :: Acrocarpous (a.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..
Podocarp :: Podocarp (n.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit..
Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..
Leafstalk :: Leafstalk (n.) The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
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..
Whipstalk :: Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn..
Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk of a pistil.
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..
Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..
Stalk-eyed :: Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.
Spindle-legged :: Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender..
Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..
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