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Definition of Stalklike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stalklike
Literary usage of Stalklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"Although sepals and petals are usually all blade or lamina, like a sessile leaf,
yet they may have a contracted and stalklike base, answering to petiole. ..."
2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"In Conifers in general, however, the expanded portion of the sporophyll develops
in the plane of the stalklike base. In Ephedra and Gnetum the ..."
3. Behavior of the Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1906)
"109) is a colorless or whitish, trumpet- shaped animal, consisting of a slender,
stalklike body, bearing at its end a broadly expanded disk, the peristome. ..."
4. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnol (1994)
"Any stalklike structure that supports another structure or organ. Plants and
animals that live in the open sea and that are not associated with the shore or ..."
5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"The structure usually called a sporophyll has a stalklike base and a peltate top,
beneath which five to ten sporangia are borne (figs- 334, ..."
6. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"The stalklike portion of a stamen. Floret. A grass flower and its surrounding
lemma and palea; the word floret is sometimes also used for a small flower in ..."
7. A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoölogy by Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1919)
"... from which a delicate stalklike body, the pineal body, ascends dorsally to
the brow spot. The pineal body is almost always torn off in removing the ..."
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