stalk
noun
the stem or main axis of a plant.
stalklike
-
a word derived from
stalk.
Example Sentences
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It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old men looked at their stalklike legs, dwelled on the cords in the backs of their knees and remembered old dance steps they had not done in twenty years.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
On the other side of the river, orange-and-pink birds waded on stalklike legs.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
I have looked into your owlish eyes and watched you go flitting over the sand on your thin, stalklike legs?
From The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long
There sponges grew in every shape, globular, stalklike, leaflike, fingerlike.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
