Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movable structure in certain crustaceans, such as crabs and shrimp, that bears an eye at the tip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stem or stalk upon which an eye is borne, as in the stalk-eyed crustaceans; the ophthalmite. See cut under
stalk-eyed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
motile stalk having aneye at the tip
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Examples
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It was kind of laughable ... the eyestalk was a flashlight, lit bulb and all!)
The Progress of Klaus Barbie Gray, Francine du Plessix 1985
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There were many times when a hideous day (or month, or year) at the job felt a little better when I could look myself in the eye (using a mirror, as opposed to a prehensile eyestalk) and tell myself that at least I made my word quota.
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Like in Doomsday, eye to eyestalk with the Dalek ... she said, Do you get that?
A word or two about the Doctor's girl, Rose Marion Tyler! rabid1st 2009
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Infocult: keeping one eyestalk fixed on the economy as it shambles ever onward.
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Infocult: keeping one eyestalk fixed on the economy as it shambles ever onward.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Zombie economics: Krugman leverages the living dead 2009
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Daleks have an eyestalk which they use to view the world.
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Robbins/eyestalk sequence seemed redundant to me and an excuse to drop in a heavily-storyboarded tension-builder before the inevitable denoument happens.
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But in her mind's eye, she saw women with eyestalk hairdos walking into the coffee shop.
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Their tentacles writhing in agitation, none of the police turnedso much as a wandering eyestalk in the lone Vssey's direction.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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Ingvrau made an eyestalk gesture that Roger didn't comprehend.
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