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Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A stalk or peduncle.

Podophthalmia :: Podophthalmia (n. pl.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda..

Verruculose :: Verruculose (a.) Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk..

Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..

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

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..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together..

Chard :: Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use..

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..

Stalkless :: Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.

Eyestalk :: Eyestalk (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip..

Pentacrinus :: Pentacrinus (n.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere..

Somatic :: Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo..

Arborescent :: Arborescent (a.) Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

Acrocarpous :: Acrocarpous (a.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp..

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..

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

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