Definition of stalk

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

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Acrocarpous :: Acrocarpous (a.) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses..
Acacia :: Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates..
Ebracteolate :: Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk..
Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..
Rhaphe :: Rhaphe (n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam..
Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A stalk or peduncle.
Monopodial :: Monopodial (a.) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk..
Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant..
Angelica :: Angelica (n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica.
Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..
Stalked :: Stalk (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk..
Stelene :: Stele (n.) A stale, or handle; a stalk..
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle..
Cormus :: Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached..
Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern..
Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..
Pedunculata :: Pedunculata (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles..
Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..
Chard :: Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use..
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
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