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stalk


stalk is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

[2] The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

[3] That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. Grew.

[4] An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

[5] One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer.

[6] A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

[7] The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

[8] The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

[9] An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.


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