Word Meanings - STALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

• Wheatbird
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Wheatear
  A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called al
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Wheatsel bird
  The male of the chaffinch.
• Plantlet
  A little plant.
• Wheatstone's bridge
  See under Bridge.
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• Wheatworm
  A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
• Planting
  of Plant
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTCANE
  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.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

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