adder's-tongue |
any of various ferns with a single sporeless leaflike frond and a slender spore-bearing spike or stalk that suggests a snake's tongue. [1/2 definitions] |
bent2 |
a stiff stalk of such grass. [1/2 definitions] |
broccoli |
a plant whose green flower buds and stalk are used for food. Broccoli is related to the cabbage plant. |
Brussels sprout |
a green vegetable resembling a small head of cabbage that grows among other heads along a tall stalk of a plant. [1/2 definitions] |
cane |
the stalk of a large, hard-stemmed grass, such as bamboo, or the plant itself. [1/7 definitions] |
celery |
a plant cultivated for its crunchy, edible stalk and for its leaves and seeds, used as seasoning. |
compound leaf |
a leaf composed of two or more leaflets on a single stalk. |
death cup |
a poisonous mushroom with white gills and a bulbous cup surrounding the base of the stalk. |
devil's paintbrush |
a common perennial weed found in Europe and North America that bears a cluster of orange-red flowers atop a leafless stalk. |
funicular |
in botany, of or pertaining to the stalk on which an ovule or seed is borne. [1/4 definitions] |
gynophore |
a stalk that supports a flower's pistil or pistils. |
hilum |
a scar on a seed formed where it was formerly attached to the seed stalk. [1/2 definitions] |
Indian pipe |
an almost leafless waxy white plant, related to heath, that lives on decayed organic matter, bears a single white flower on each stalk, and looks like a tobacco pipe. |
larkspur |
a plant with bright blue, pink, or white flowers on a tall stalk. The flowers have a long projection called a spur. |
leafstalk |
the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem; petiole. |
mouse |
to stalk and catch mice, or to hunt about as if for mice. [1/5 definitions] |
mushroom |
a fungus with a stalk and a cap that looks like a small umbrella. Some kinds of mushrooms can be eaten; other kinds are poisonous. Mushrooms live in damp places and are the fruiting bodies of certain kinds of fungi. [1/3 definitions] |
ommatophore |
a movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails. |
pedicel |
a small stalk that bears a single flower or fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
peltate |
having the leaf stalk attached near the center of the surface of a leaf instead of at the margin. |
petiole |
the thin stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem. [1/2 definitions] |