Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The stalk or stem of a corn plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stem or culm of Indian corn, without the ears, leaves, or tassel, or with all of these except the ears.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stalk of Indian corn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The tough, fibrous stalk of a
corn (maize ) plant, often ground forsilage after harvest. - noun botany A single specimen of a corn plant once past the
seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multipleears of corn.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stalk of a corn plant
- noun the stalk of a corn plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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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."
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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Also: menacing scarecrows, constructed from pumpkin heads and cornstalk bodies, and a mobile of flying bats hanging under the White House portico.
Halloween at the White House: Some healthy eats with the tricks and treats (photos) The Reliable Source 2010
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He bolted from a hiding place under the base of a cornstalk.
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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.
Sandra Steingraber: Escape from the Heartland - Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC 2010
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There are horses in the sheds, turkeys in the cornstalk stubble, and barn kittens that play tag around a pair of somnolent corgis.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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There are horses in the sheds, turkeys in the cornstalk stubble, and barn kittens that play tag around a pair of somnolent corgis.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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There are horses in the sheds, turkeys in the cornstalk stubble, and barn kittens that play tag around a pair of somnolent corgis.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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If the immune system learns how to recognize only one of these cornstalk molecules, it can attack just about every parasite in the body.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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If the immune system learns how to recognize only one of these cornstalk molecules, it can attack just about every parasite in the body.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
bilby commented on the word cornstalk
Compare gum-sucker.
July 15, 2022