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Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..

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..

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..

Stipitate :: Stipes (n.) An eyestalk.

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

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.

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..

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..

Stalker :: Stalker (n.) One who stalks.

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..

Cornstalk :: Cornstalk (n.) A stalk of Indian corn.

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter..

Carl :: Carl (n.) Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..

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.

Podophthalmous :: Podophthalmous (a.) Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

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..

Gemmation :: Gemmation (n.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud..

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