Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The stalk or stem of a corn plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The stem or culm of Indian corn, without the ears, leaves, or tassel, or with all of these except the ears. Compare
stover . The corn-stalk consists of an outer-shell surrounding the pith. After removal of the latter the shell is now sometimes ground into a meal equal to good hay for feeding stock. - n. A tall, slender person: applied as a nickname to those whites who have been born and bred in the Australian colonies, and especially in New South Wales.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
- n. botany A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stalk of Indian corn.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the stalk of a corn plant
- n. the stalk of a corn plant
Etymologies
- corn + stalk (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Her stall was soon filled, or partly filled, and this time with a native, -- a specimen of what may be called the cornstalk breed of”
“The newcomer was not an Adonis, perhaps, but he was one compared with the awkward, leaning Tower of Pisa "cornstalk," who carried the jack-knife as "the homeliest man in the section.”
“Also: menacing scarecrows, constructed from pumpkin heads and cornstalk bodies, and a mobile of flying bats hanging under the White House portico.”
“ He bolted from a hiding place under the base of a cornstalk.”
“Clearly, the compass points all extended to the cornstalk-edged horizon, the roads shot out in all four directions with equal ease, and neither oceans nor mountain ranges prevented escape.”
“There are horses in the sheds, turkeys in the cornstalk stubble, and barn kittens that play tag around a pair of somnolent corgis.”
“If the immune system learns how to recognize only one of these cornstalk molecules, it can attack just about every parasite in the body.”
“Griffith stared at the object rising from the ground like a metal cornstalk behind Doc.”
“Skinny as a rail and shooting up like a cornstalk.”
“Daylong in the hunting grounds between seasons, the trumpet flowers are small twisters finally quitting this world, afterthoughts in the cornstalk shade of October.”
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