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Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

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

Stripling :: Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.

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

Shank :: Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off..

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

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..

Stalk :: Stalking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stal.

Secund :: Secund (a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives..

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

Stelene :: Stele (n.) A stale, or handle; a 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..

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..

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..

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

Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..

Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf..

Slender :: Slender (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant..

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

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