Word Meanings - LEAFSTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
Related words: (words related to LEAFSTALK)
- STALKY
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - 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. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PETIOLED
Petiolate. - PETIOLE
A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf. - 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 - DEERSTALKER
One who practices deerstalking. - CORNSTALK
A stalk of Indian corn. - 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.