stalk
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- noun
- /stɔk/
- The tall green stalk of the corn plant reached high above the ground.
- a flower stalk
- a stalk of corn
- leaves and stalks
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Watch on YouTubeHe's a he's a high stalk of grass to chop off.
- He's a he's a high stalk of grass to chop off.
- Then you have the soft dough stage where the stalks should still look pretty green.
- Now, the celery stalks is kind of what you consider a shoot, right?
- Grass seed comes very readily on stalks like this.
- He took a scythe and he he cut off the stalk so everything was at the same level.
- And I like any flower that blooms on a stalk like that.
- Shiitakes Enoki which kind of white Tufts of mushrooms with thin slender slender stalks.
- The Holy Trinity of cooking, Cajun cooking is you got to have your onion, your celery stalk and your green Peppers.
Examples
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Still, it contained the dead, dry stalks of plants from another year.
Fiction book (1990) -
You could see by the dry brown stalks, standing packed closely together, that they had stopped watering.
Fiction book (1993) -
So you would just take the stalk like that and then put it and then like pull it through.
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So the stalk on them is much smaller and they bridge out towards the top to hold the bridge part up.
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And when you look at the stalk, what do you see?
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You cut just down the entire stalk!
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Leave the cotton on the stalk
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Found some green stalks down by the stream.
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Some of the Sea Island cotton stalks were 14 feet in height.
Academic text (2007) -
Grass seed comes very readily on stalks like this.
Synonyms
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A long thin part that supports a plant or a pipe
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2.7
The main stem of a corn plant that holds the leaves and ears
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6.8
A long plant stem that has flowers attached directly
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9.1
A long stalk without leaves that grows from the ground and holds a flower
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3.3
An upright stem that grows from the ground and holds a flower above the leaves
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6.9
The main stem of a plant that has leaves or branches along it
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8.0
A thin stalk in a flower that carries pollen down to the part that makes seeds
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9.7
A thin stalk that connects a leaf to the plant stem
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9.3
A shoot that grows from the base of a grass plant and can become a new plant
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9.9
A small stalk that holds a single flower on a plant
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9.2
A side stem that grows from the base of a plant and makes new plants
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7.2
A long thin plant stem used as a simple tube or whistle
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7.7
A thin stalk that connects the flat part of a leaf to the plant stem
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9.9
A stalk that holds a flower or group of flowers above the plant
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9.9
A stalk that supports parts of plants such as a mushroom cap, a fern leaf, or part of a flower
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7.0
A thin stalk in a flower that holds the part that has pollen
A thin dry twig from a plant
A small stalk that holds a single flower in a cluster
A small stalk that joins a leaflet to a compound leaf
A stalk that holds spore cases in fungi and some plants
Compounds
- Specialized
A thin tube connecting the pituitary gland under the brain to the hypothalamus above it
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Etymology
Stalk comes from an old word meaning 'stem' or 'support', so think of it as the plant's long stem or stick that holds leaves and flowers. That's why stalk today means the long, thin part of a plant.