stalky
Americanadjective
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like a stalk; slender and tall
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having or abounding in stalks
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Origin of stalky
Example Sentences
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Tribal youths worked with elders to harvest tule — a stalky plant native to California’s wetlands — and use it to build traditional boats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
"There's no goodness in it, it's just completely stalky with no nutritional value at all."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
They were out of baby’s breath, but on the floor around them were buckets of thousands of donated blooms — fragrant lilies, roses and carnations, blue delphinium, stalky allium and green bells of Ireland.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
In the distance, behind the patch of soy stubble, Dobson pointed to another field filled with stalky brown plants.
From Salon ● May 10, 2019
No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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