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Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich past…

Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.…

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichætium; perichete.

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. Henslow.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.