stalk
/stɔːk/ sustantivo C1En español: tallo
- The stem or main axis of a plant. · a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. · grape stalks
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
Plural stalks
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On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.
And there’s a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs.
“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green.
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