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 orstem ; 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
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They felt maybe people wouldn't understand the word stalked, so it became "Monster from the Ocean Floor."
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When Amunhotep couldnt stand any more of his brothers sickness, he stalked from the chamber and stood on a balcony overlooking Thebes.
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Mrs. Morton gathered the folds of her dress together and without a word stalked out of the room.
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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.
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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.
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Then he reached for his hat, and without another word stalked out of the house, his features convulsed with anger and chagrin.
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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.
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He mopped the beads of sweat that had broken out on his brow, and without a word stalked out of the door.
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Mrs. Morton gathered the folds of her dress together and without a word stalked out of the room.
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