Word Finder - stalk

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The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.

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a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp

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The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.

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Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

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An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

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One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

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A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.

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The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

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The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

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An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Sandy uplands produce a short stalk which bears fairly well.

He had an Other to stalk.

He would pollinate a wheat stalk, then cover it with a trash bag to prevent contamination by other plants.

The stalk of the maize is also a very useful article.

The lophophore and stalk are largely composed of this tissue.

It is made from the stalk of the flax plant.

As a result, the main stalk is called the culm.

I observed by chance a stalk of rice which was already in ear.

Let 's face it, nobody really wants to stalk deer.

Linen comes from the stalk of the flax plant.

I prayed our Delabama killer didn't stalk Agnes Delanco before she or her detectives tracked him down, quickly I hoped.

The second segment grows downwards like a skirt surrounding the third segment, which is destined to form the stalk.

In all the instances already alluded to the leaves have been considered as flat expansions, in which the ribs or veins spread out on the same plane with the stalk.

Other hairs consist of a chain of cells; others, again, are branched in various ways; while yet others have the form of a flat plate of cells placed parallel to the leaf surface and inserted on a stalk.

The vena cava (vc) is always found to the right of the Spigelian lobe and dorsal to the stalk of the caudate.

A typical male flower consists of a central axis bearing numerous spirally-arranged sporophylls (stamens), each of which consists of a slender stalk (filament) terminating distally in a more or less prominent knob or triangular scale, and bearing two or more pollen-sacs (microsporangia) on its lower surface.

Many Pelmatozoa have, it is true, no stalk, while some are freely-moving, but all agree in the possession of certain characters obviously connected with a fixed mode of life.

From each segment, near its base, a stalked peltate sporangiophore arose; this bore four sporangia, which hung parallel to the stalk.

The sporangia originate from single cells, though surrounding cells may contribute to the formation of the stalk.

I, Rachis, or central stalk of ear, spikelets removed.

After pollination the female flower becomes drawn below the surface by the spiral contraction of the long stalk, and the fruit ripens near the bottom.

His most common form is that of a vigorous young man, with wings on his forehead; his attributes a stalk of poppy, and a horn from which he drops slumber upon those whom he puts to rest.

It is rarely cut, but is left to mature and dry on the stalk in the field.

A flower having a stalk is called pedunculate or pedicel- late; one having no stalk is sessile.

The pistil consists of several carpels, which are elevated on a stalk or gynophore prolonged from the receptacle.

In orchids each of the pollen-masses has a prolongation or stalk (caudicle) which adheres to a prolongation at the base of the anther (rostellum) by means of a viscid gland (retinaculum) which is either naked or covered.

It consists essentially of two parts, a basal portion forming a chamber, the ovary, containing the ovules attached to a part called the placenta, and an upper receptive portion, the stigma, which is either seated on the ovary (sessile), as in the tulip and poppy, or is elevated on a stalk called the style, interposed between the ovary and stigma.

The seed was stalked, and there is an exact agreement in structure between the vascular strands of the stalk and cupule of the seed, and those of the rachis and leaflets of Lyginodendron, thus confirming the evidence from the glands.

Probably the hollow fennel stalk in which fire was carried got its place in myth from the very fact of its common use.

Her hand was sweating on the stalk of the rifle when she heard the last horse return.

He'd be obsessed with her, stalk her to the ends of the galaxy as long as he lived.

Dean left the parking lot on Elm Street, turned left on Church, and after dutifully pausing for a calico cat to stalk a pigeon, he continued out Yoder Avenue, watching the city slowly dissolve in his rearview mirror.

Dr. L.F. Lowenstein OR children run up the bean stalk when you shout GIANT they climb back down and chop the beanstalk down.

They grow in closely packed rows on a tall, thick stalk, and have a pungent, slightly bitter flavor.

Whilst you can stalk carp on some waters most of the time, these conditions really make life a lot easier.

Chicken carcass or shin of beef plus some beef bones, 1 stalk celery and1 carrot, 1 medium onion outer leaves only removed.

Sporting clients from all over the world visit our beautiful country to stalk deer in the wild and remote corries in the Scottish glens.

Lethal Vehicles - Gamers control menacing Battle Walkers that stalk the land and futuristic gunships that patrol the skies.

Even then it required patience to at last see it stalk out from under a bush for a few seconds.

The abnormal cells first invade the stalk of the polyp, then the underlying tissue of the colon to which the stalk of the polyp, then the underlying tissue of the colon to which the stalk is attached.

The portal vessels run down the pituitary stalk (infundibulum) to arrive at the pituitary gland.

The flowers are first produced on the bottom of the flowering stalk or raceme.

In the living Cephalodiscus a zooid can crawl by means of its proboscis over the gelatinous processes of the outer side of the coenoecium, a position which it can assume owing to the very great extensibility of the stalk, the proximal suctorial end of which remains attached to the inner surface of some part of the coenoecium (Andersson, 1907).

The next step is to assemble the petals and other parts of the flower, which is built up from the centre outwards; and the fourth is to mount the flower on a stalk formed of brass or iron wire wrapped round with suitably coloured material, and to fasten on the leaves required to complete the spray.

Observations upon captive specimens have led to the conclusion that it feeds principally on juices, especially of the sugar-cane, which it obtains by tearing open the hard woody circumference of the stalk with its strong incisor teeth; but it is said also to devour certain species of wood-boring caterpillars, which it obtains by first cutting down with its teeth upon their burrows, and then picking them out of their retreat with the claw of its attenuated middle finger.

The epiphysis, or pineal body, is quite as degenerate as in mammals, although still forming a long stalk as in reptiles.

The two anther-cases in an orchis are erect and nearly parallel the one to the other; the pollen-masses within them are of course in like case, as may be thus represented II, but immediately the pollen-masses are removed movements take place at the base of the caudicle so as to effect the bending of this stalk and the placing the pollen-mass in a more or less horizontal position, thus -, or, as in the case of 0.

For example, the egg may be raised above the surface on which it is laid by an elongate stalk; the eggs may be protected by a secretion, which in some cases forms a hard protective capsule or " purse "; or they may be covered with shed hairs of the mother, while among waterinsects a gelatinous envelope, often of rope-like form, is common.

Examples of Selenops (Clubionidae) lie flat and absolutely still on the bark of trees, to which their coloration assimilates, and spring like a flash of light upon any insect that touches their legs; the Lycosidae dart swiftly upon their prey; and the Salticidae, which compared with other spiders have keen powers of vision, stealthily stalk it to within leaping distance, then, gathering their legs together, cover the intervening space with a spring and with unerring aim seize it and bury their fangs in its body.

The females of some snare-spinning species, like the Pholcidae, carry it in their jaws; but in the case of the Argyopidae the females usually leave the cocoon to its fate as soon as it is constructed, sometimes rolling it in a leaf, sometimes attaching it by a stalk to a branch.