Word Meanings - CORNSTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stalk of Indian corn.
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- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - STALKY
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer. - 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. - INDIAN
river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; - 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 - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - WEST INDIAN
A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies. - DEERSTALKER
One who practices deerstalking. - CORNSTALK
A stalk of Indian corn. - WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea. - 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.