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footstalk|ˈfʊtstɔːk|
[f. foot n. + stalk.]
A slender stem or support fitted into a foot or base. a. Bot. The stalk or petiole of a leaf; the peduncle of a flower.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 41 A footlyng or footstalcke such as chyries grow on. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xl. §3 The flowers do growe betweene the footestalkes of those leaues. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1114 The flowers come forth at the joynts upon long footstalkes. 1775Romans Hist. Florida 27 Laurel, with..blue berries sitting on long foot⁓stalks. 1849Dana Geol. App. i. 716 The footstalk into which the frond tapers is very long.
b. Zool. A process resembling the petiole of a plant; e.g. the muscular attachment of a barnacle, the stalk of a crinoid, etc.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xliv. 214 Each egg is furnished with a footstalk terminating in a bulb. 1849H. Miller Footpr. Creat. iii. 30 The scale-like shagreen of the dog-fish is elevated over it on an osseous pedicle or foot⁓stalk. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. v. (1878) 110 In some of the crabs the footstalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone.
c. gen.
1831Brewster Nat. Magic viii. (1833) 194 A tumbler⁓glass with a footstalk. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. v. 122 Huge blocks [of ice] balanced on narrow footstalks.
Hence ˈfoot-stalked a., attached by a footstalk.
1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1185/1 [Tunicata] sessile or foot-stalked on the rock. |