Cornstalk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cornstalk is a noun meaning (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
Meaning
(botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
More Meanings
- (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
Example Sentences
Holonym: cornfield
He's a bloody cornstalk.
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.
Word Forms
- cornstalks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include borer, cornsilk, cornhusk, castock, corn, seedcorn.
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