stalk
5
8.9
- noun
- /stɔk/
- Specialized
:
rastrojo
- During the autumn, the fields were scattered with abandoned stalks left over from the crops.
- stalks and straw
Examples
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The farmer collected the dried stalk of corn for animal feed after the harvest.
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On both sides of the road, people were out in the cornfield cutting down the stalks, stacking them in piles, and setting them on fire.
Fiction book (1993) -
The process began with what was called stripping the leaves from the stalk while still standing.
Blog text (19) -
I then took the stalk, broke it up, and mashed it with the cookies to hide the taste.
Blog text (33) -
Women had to walk for miles for fuel such as small sticks and millet stalks.
Blog text (8) -
In the fields, some withered brown stalks of corn stood forlornly, like orphans.
Fiction book (1992) -
Because the plant generates feedstocks that are stronger in nitrogen than carbon, corn stalks and wheat straw are also added.
Academic text (2001) -
A few old stiff spiny stalks still remained, dotted with desiccated red berries.
Fiction book (1997) -
Barry didn't mind the weeds, and Sandy seemed to like them, rushing through the dusty stalks and snapping at grasshoppers.
Fiction book (2001) -
After processing, the stalks of wheat were piled high in the barn for winter storage.
Synonyms
8
7.4
The dry outer covering of seeds that you remove before eating corn
5
5.0
Short dry stalks and husks left after the harvest
3
8.6
The dry outer parts of grain removed when the seeds are cleaned
Compounds
- Specialized
A thin tube connecting the pituitary gland under the brain to the hypothalamus above it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stalk in farming comes from the same idea of plant stems and bits left after harvest, like straw in a field. So farmers call the dry plant material left on the ground a stalk.