footstalk

American  

[foot-stawk] / ˈfʊtˌstɔk /

noun

Botany, Zoology.

1. a pedicel; peduncle.

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footstalk British  

/ ˈfʊtˌstɔːk /

noun

1. a small supporting stalk in animals and plants; a pedicel, peduncle, or pedicle

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Etymology

Origin of footstalk

First recorded in 1555–65; foot + stalk ¹

Example Sentences

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footstalk

Purple Trillium, Ill-scented Wake-Robin, or Birth-root Trillium erectum Flowers—Solitary, dark, dull purple, or purplish red; rarely greenish, white, or pinkish; on erect or slightly inclined footstalk.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

Strig, strig, n. the footstalk of a flower or leaf.—v.t. to strip this off.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Fruit.—Ripening in October, one or several from the same footstalk, about 3 inches long, oblong, pointed, green, downy, and sticky at first, dark brown when dry: shells sculptured, rough: kernel edible, sweet but oily.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

The female deposits her eggs on leaves, not directly on the plant itself, but attached to it by a long white slender footstalk.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir

Fringed Gentian Gentiana crinita Flowers—Deep, bright blue, rarely white, several or many, about 2 in. high, stiffly erect, and solitary at ends of very long footstalk.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje