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The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus. [Prov. Eng.]

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

ring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

ting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

chine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

ally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.

Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.

A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

ev. xv. 24. Animal flower (Zoöl.) See under Animal. -- Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus Meligethes, fam…

rregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.