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Spire :: Spire (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

Bract :: Bract (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises..

Sentinel :: Sentinel (n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab..

Gomuti :: Gomuti (n.) A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

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

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant..

Perichaeth :: Perichaeth (n.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Stalk-eyed :: Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.

Sheaf :: Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw..

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..

Peduncle :: Peduncle (n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits..

Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk of a pistil.

Apple :: Apple (n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..

Funicle :: Funicle (n.) The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.

Stalker :: Stalked (a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

Belted :: Belted (a.) Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk..

Endogenous :: Endogenous (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk..

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