stubble

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The short, stiff stalks of grain or hay remaining on a field after harvesting.
• noun Something resembling this material, especially the short growth of hair that eventually protrudes from the skin after shaving.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The lower ends of grain-stalks, collectively, left standing in the ground when the crop is cut; the covering of a harvested field of grain.
• noun Something resembling or analogous to stubble, especially a short rough beard, or the short hair on a cropped head. See stubbly.
• noun Same as stubble-cane.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the graylag goose.
• noun a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable and uncountable short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• noun countable and uncountable the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
• noun short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days