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Look up: Stalk

  1. Stalk
    To follow prey stealthily and quietly.
    Found on http://www.wolfsource.org/?page_id=63

  2. Stalk
    A stem, usually of large plants; also an elongate structure, either cellular or excreted, which anchors a cell to a surface.
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  3. stalk
    [n] - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ 2. [n] - a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush 3. [n] - the act of following prey stealthily 4. [n] - a stiff or threatening gait 5. [v] - go through (an area) in search of prey 6. [v] - walk stiffly
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. stalk
    the whole structure of the peduncle and its ramifications ending in the pedicels Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Stalk
    Stalk noun [ Middle English stalke , from Anglo-Saxon stæl , stel , a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall .] 1. (Botany) (a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. (b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. 2. That which resembes the stalk of ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/182

  6. Stalk
    Stalk intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stalked ; present participle & verbal noun Stalking .] [ Anglo-Saxon stælcan , stealcian to go slowly; confer stels high, elevated, Danish stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk .] 1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stea ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/182

  7. Stalk
    Stalk transitive verb To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. « As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.» Sir W. Scott.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/182

  8. Stalk
    Stalk noun A high, proud, stately step or walk. « Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.» Shak. « The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.» Spenser.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/182

  9. Stalk
    Stalk noun The act or process of stalking. « When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.» T. Roosevelt.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/182

  10. stalk
    A stem. Usually refers to the pituitary stalk that connects the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. stalk
    angry walk noun a stiff or threatening gait
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. stalk
    stem noun a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. stalk
    noun a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. stalk
    (stawk) an elongated anatomical structure resembling the stem of a plant. allantoic stalk the slender tube lying between the urogenital sinus and allantoic sac; it is the precursor of the urachus. body stalk , connecting stalk a bridge of m...
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  15. Stalk
    • (n.) The act or process of stalking. • (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. • (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. • (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. • (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. •...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. stalk
    A narrowed connection with a structure or organ.
    Found on

  17. Stalk
    A term describing teas that contain pieces of stalk from poor plucking.
    Found on http://www.hungrymonster.com/Foodfacts/T


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