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flower stalk

NOUN
  1. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip

How To Use flower stalk In A Sentence

  • They can easily be distinguished by their thick flower stalks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other conspicuous species include the whites, pinks and mauves of the lilacs and laburnums on Mitchell Drive and the common horse chestnut whose upright white flower stalks stand out boldly - there are several fine trees near to the Great Oak Hall.
  • Fertilizing of glads is advantageous, as this produces a healthy flower stalk and gives the corm the needed strength to build enough energy to produce another flower the following year.
  • He also sold bouquets of nettles, thistles, and headless flower stalks.
  • erect flower stalks
  • The small egg-shaped bulb gives rise to a long flower stalk upon which globe-shaped purple-red flowers are produced.
  • They have a thick, consistently inflexed flower stalk in contrast to the remaining members of Petunia, which have a thin, deflexed flower stalk in the fruiting state.
  • They can easily be distinguished by their thick flower stalks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pure white flower -- more than an inch across -- is somewhat distant from the handsome three-leaved involucrum, and is supported by a wiry flower stalk, 3in. to 5in. long; it is about the same length from the root, otherwise the plant is stemless. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • In that singular light every little tree and shock of wheat, every sunflower stalk and clump of snow-on-the-mountain, drew itself up high and pointed; the very clods and furrows in the fields seemed to stand up sharply. My Ántonia
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