Stalk (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant |
Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. |
Stalk (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. |
Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. |
Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. |
Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. |
Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. |
Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. |
Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it |
Stalk (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously |
Stalk (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game |
Stalk (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps |
Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. |
Stalk (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk. |
Stalk-eyed (a.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle |
Stem (v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem (n.) The stock of a family |
Stem (n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem (n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping (a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
stalk angry walk | a stiff or threatening gait |
stalk stalking | the act of following prey stealthily |
stem turn stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
stalk stalking still hunt | a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush |
bow fore prow stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
hypophyseal stalk | the funnel-shaped stalk connecting the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus |
brainstem brain-stem brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
stem vowel thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
cornstalk corn stalk | the stalk of a corn plant |
celtuce stem lettuce Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
bluestem blue stem Andropogon furcatus Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
common ginger Canton ginger stem ginger Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger |
onion stem Lepiota cepaestipes | a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base |
stalk stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
scape flower stalk | erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip |
black-stem spleenwort black-stemmed spleenwort little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil |
stem blight | a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
little potato rosette russet scab stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
chaff husk shuck stalk straw stubble | material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds |
stem | remove the stem from, for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed |
stem stanch staunch halt | stop the flow of a liquid, staunch the blood flow, stem the tide |
stalk | walk stiffly |
stalk | go through (an area) in search of prey, stalk the woods for deer |
haunt stalk | follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to, her ex-boyfriend stalked her, the ghost of her mother haunted her |
stem | grow out of, have roots in, originate in, The increase in the national debt stems from the last war |
stem | cause to point inward, stem your skis |