Word Meanings - CORNSTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stalk of Indian corn.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• STALKED
  Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle , a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid , any crinoid having a jointed stem.
• STALKING-HORSE
  1. A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill. 2. Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense. Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under
• STALK
  An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer. A stem or peduncle, as of certain
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• EYESTALK
  One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
• DEERSTALKING
  The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
• WHIPSTALK
  A whipstock.
• LEAFSTALK
  The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
• FOOTSTALK
  The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle. The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles. The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea;
• HAYSTALK
  A stalk of hay.