stalk
- 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
He'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
A long thin part that supports a plant or a pipe
A thin stalk in a flower that carries pollen down to the part that makes seeds
A long plant stem that has flowers attached directly
The main stem of a corn plant that holds the leaves and ears
A thin stalk in a flower that holds the part that has pollen
A stalk that supports parts of plants such as a mushroom cap, a fern leaf, or part of a flower
The main stem of a plant that has leaves or branches along it
An upright stem that grows from the ground and holds a flower above the leaves
A long stalk without leaves that grows from the ground and holds a flower
A thin stalk that connects a leaf to the plant stem
A shoot that grows from the base of a grass plant and can become a new plant
A thin dry twig from a plant
A stalk that holds a flower or group of flowers above the plant
A small stalk that holds a single flower on a plant
A small stalk that holds a single flower in a cluster
A thin stalk that connects the flat part of a leaf to the plant stem
A small stalk that joins a leaflet to a compound leaf
A long thin plant stem used as a simple tube or whistle
A side stem that grows from the base of a plant and makes new plants
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
How Thick
Surface Forms
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.