| 单词 | stalk |
| 释义 | stalk (once / 410 pages) 1n 2nv A stalk is a long, vertical stem or connecting part of a plant. When you eat celery, do you like the inner stalks, which are paler and more tender, or the tough outer ones? As a verb, stalk means to walk stiffly or angrily. If someone insults you, you might stalk from the room and refuse to listen to another word. When hunting, an animal stalks its prey — it follows its quarry stealthily until it's time to pounce. Similarly, if a person stalks you, they follow and watch you. It is very threatening and frightening to the one who is being stalked, and the police should be called. WORD FAMILYstalk: stalked, stalker, stalking, stalkless, stalks+/stalker: stalkers/stalking: stalkings USAGE EXAMPLESHe seasons the brodo with fresh thyme stalks, lemon juice and salt. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Taylor University’s 40-foot brick bell tower rises like a stalk from the Indiana corn. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) He created 60 Twitter handles for Islamic State propaganda and stalked residences in Northern Virginia that were on the group’s “kill lists.” Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 1n a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ Syn|Hypo|Hyper stem gynophore the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle carpophorea slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel corn stalk, cornstalkthe stalk of a corn plant filamentthe stalk of a stamen funicle, funiculusthe stalk of a plant ovule or seed petiolulethe stalk of a leaflet canea strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane sporangiophorestalk bearing one or more sporangia cutting, slipa part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting tubera fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage rhizome, rootstalk, rootstocka horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure axisthe main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged caudexwoody stem of palms and tree ferns beanstalkstem of a bean plant cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phyllocladea flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf caudex, stockpersistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant stipesupporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap flower stalk, scapeerect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip leafstalk, petiolethe slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf bulba modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure cormsolid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure brancha division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant culmstem of plants of the Gramineae halm, haulmstems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding bole, tree trunk, trunkthe main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber water chestnutedible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant groundnut, potato bean, wild beannutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans Jerusalem artichokeedible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke yamedible tuber of any of several yams sugar cane, sugarcanejuicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice rattan, rattan canethe stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes malaccastem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles onionthe bulb of an onion plant shallotaggregate bulb of the multiplier onion squillbulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant quicksetcuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines rachisaxis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence phyllodean expanded petiole taking on the function of a leaf blade pedunclestalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower spadixthe fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe bulbil, bulbletsmall bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers deadwooda branch or a part of a tree that is dead limb, tree branchany of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree branchlet, sprig, twiga small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year plant organ a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus 2n material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble bran broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting plant material, plant substance material derived from plants 1n a stiff or threatening gait Syn|Hyper angry walk gait a person's manner of walking 2n a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush Syn|Hypo|Hyper stalking, still hunt deerstalking stalking deer hunt, hunting the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts 3n the act of following prey stealthily Syn|Hyper stalking chase, following, pursual, pursuit the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture 4v walk stiffly Hyper walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 5v follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to her ex-boyfriend stalked her Syn|Hyper haunt follow, pursue follow in or as if in pursuit 6v go through (an area) in search of prey stalk the woods for deer Hyper follow, pursue follow in or as if in pursuit |
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