Word Meanings - LEAFSTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

Related words: (words related to LEAFSTALK)

• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PETIOLED
  Petiolate.
• PETIOLE
  A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
• 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
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• 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.