stalk 的定义
- the stem or main axis of a plant.
- any slender supporting or connecting part of a plant, as the petiole of a leaf, the peduncle of a flower, or the funicle of an ovule.
- a similar structural part of an animal.
- a stem, shaft, or slender supporting part of anything.
- Automotive. a slender lever, usually mounted on or near the steering wheel, that is used by the driver to control a signal or function: The horn button is on the turn-signal stalk.
stalk 近义词
stem of plant
follow, creep up on
更多stalk例句
- Another client, Meadow Mushrooms, is making packaging from the stalks removed from mushrooms during processing.
- A few miles down the road, a rusting old John Deere combine growled on through the flurries, its blade churning through dead-brown stalks of soybeans.
- These grass-like plants will be 3 to 9 feet tall with an oval cross section to the lower stalk.
- The most interesting thing is not that it’s almost spherical, but rather the beautiful cusplike feature where the stalk meets the fruit.
- The system monitors grain as it’s collected and adjusts dozens of settings on the combine in real-time to maximize how much grain is chopped from each stalk and to minimize waste.
- At night jineteras stalk the promenade in search of tourists while a trumpet from a bench serenades the proceedings.
- Murder, suicide, illness, old age: These deaths stalk us all, but in prison, they collect us so much more cheaply.
- They go to Paris, but never leave the underground metro station, where they stalk the metro mall shops.
- Famine will stalk the land and as many as seven million people will confront extreme food insecurity—in short, starvation.
- More girls are reporting their boyfriends stalk them via text message or threaten to humiliate them with social media.
- The flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
- When a leaf is so young that it wraps itself around the main stalk it's useless to try to turn it over.
- At last the Queen, whose mouth was now quite filled with bits of the mullen-stalk, mumbled, "Get to the point."
- Why should they not dawdle at their labor sitting upon the fence in endless colloquy while the harvest rots upon the stalk?
- I wonder if that square-jawed devil has got a glimpse of us and is trying a lone-handed stalk himself?