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Cornstalk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The stalk or stem of a corn plant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

n. A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A stalk of Indian corn.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The stem or culm of Indian corn, without the ears, leaves, or tassel, or with all of these except the ears.

n. A tall, slender person: applied as a nickname to those whites who have been born and bred in the Australian colonies, and especially in New South Wales.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the stalk of a corn plant

Word Usage

"Her stall was soon filled, or partly filled, and this time with a native, -- a specimen of what may be called the cornstalk breed of"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

stalk stem

Cross Reference

corn-stalk disease corn-stalk fiddle

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