footstalkn.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 41 A footlyng or footstalcke such as chyries grow on.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 255 The flowers do growe betweene the footestalkes of those leaues.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1114 The flowers come forth at the joynts upon long footstalkes.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 113/1 Of this kind is the Sea Housleek, the flowers grow thick without foot-stalks.

1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 243 Leaves..more rugged and cordated at the Footstalk.

1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 27 Laurel, with..blue berries sitting on long foot-stalks.

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. App. i. 716 The footstalk into which the frond tapers is very long.

1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xv. 355 The area of all the leaves together with their footstalks, was found by a planimetre.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xv. 453 It [sc. eddoes] has only a short stem, and the large arrow-shaped leaves are borne on long petioles or foot-stalks rising from the ground.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 127 The footstalks of the flowers [of the Japanese Raisin Tree] swell and become succulent and pulpy.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 33 In fact, if we regard the wing of a butterfly with a good microscope, we shall perceive it studded over with a variety of little grains of different dimensions and forms, generally supported upon a footstalk, regularly laid upon the whole surface.

1793 Nat. Hist. Birds, Fish, Insects & Reptiles IV. 213 They [sc. crabs] have two eyes at a considerable distance from each other, and for the most part supported by a kind of pedunculi, or footstalks.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xliv. 214 Each egg is furnished with a footstalk terminating in a bulb.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species v. 137 In some of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone.

1901 E. Step Shell Life xv. 258 The egg-capsules in this case are flattened oval pouches, attached by a short footstalk to the fronds of the Grass-wrack (Zostera).

2007 Vanity Fair June 135/3 Even barnacles, going for 1,600, or about 14 bucks, a kilo, I'd always thought these black footstalks were only an ugliness to be scraped from the hulls of old wooden ships.

1787 Archaeologia 8 171 It was used as a drinking cup, and resembled our chalices or goblets. This, inverted and suspended by its footstalk, was similar to the canopy that covered these shrines.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic viii. 193 A tumbler-glass with a footstalk.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iii. 121 Huge blocks [of ice] balanced on narrow footstalks.

1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. II. 74 (heading) Foot-Stalked Boilweed.

1832 Useful & Ornamental Planting (Soc. Diffusion Useful Knowledge) 88 The variety of oak in this park is chiefly of that called the foot-stalked oak, Quercus robur pedunculata.

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1185/1 [Tunicata] sessile or foot-stalked on the rock.

1982 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 134 4/1 The midrange of the valve has scattered, short, footstalked glands.