Definitions

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

  • adjective Having a stalk or stem. Often used in combination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a stalk or stem: as, a stalked barnacle or crinoid.

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

  • adjective Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) any crinoid having a jointed stem.

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

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of stalk.
  • adjective Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

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

  • adjective having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk

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Examples

  • They felt maybe people wouldn't understand the word stalked, so it became "Monster from the Ocean Floor."

    Repertoire Of Horrors: The Films Of Roger Corman 2010

  • When Amunhotep couldn’t stand any more of his brother’s sickness, he stalked from the chamber and stood on a balcony overlooking Thebes.

    Excerpt: Nefertiti by Michelle Moran 2007

  • Mrs. Morton gathered the folds of her dress together and without a word stalked out of the room.

    The American Senator 2004

  • I shook them off, and without a word stalked out of the mess, like a man who must remove himself before he does someone a mischief.

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

  • I shook them off, and without a word stalked out of the mess, like a man who must remove himself before he does someone a mischief.

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

  • Then he reached for his hat, and without another word stalked out of the house, his features convulsed with anger and chagrin.

    Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Lester Chadwick

  • I was on the point of asking him if he, too, observed anything queer in the girl, when Armstrong hurried in and handed her a small package, then almost without a word stalked out again, evidently as much to Snowbird's surprise as to our own.

    The War Terror 1908

  • He mopped the beads of sweat that had broken out on his brow, and without a word stalked out of the door.

    Gordon Keith Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • Mrs. Morton gathered the folds of her dress together and without a word stalked out of the room.

    The American Senator Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Was the person that coined the phrase stalked like this?

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008

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