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Bent or curved in the form of a bow. "Arcuate stalks." Gray.

timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince…

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

mal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

a white butterfly. See Cabbage Butterfly, above. The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks or young plants during the night, are the larvæ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. -- Sea cabbage.(Bot.) (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, caulif…

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

(Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

mpound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk. -- Compound microscope. See Microscope. -- Compound motion. See Motion. -- Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number…

individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.