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cornstalk (plural cornstalks)

1. (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

   Holonym: cornfield

   Comeronyms: corncob, cornhusk, ear, kernel

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:

     As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

2. (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
4. (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.

   He's a bloody cornstalk.

派生語

• cornstalk dracaena (Dracaena fragrans)

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• Clarkston