The stalk or stem of a plant, leaf, flower or fruit.

The main body (usually more or less cylindrical) of the portion above ground of a tree, shrub, or other plant; a trunk, stock, stalk. (Ordinarily…

A stalk or stem of a plant, esp. one of a tall and slender growth. Now rare.

The main stem of a herbaceous plant, bearing the flowers and leaves; also, a scape or flower-stem rising directly from the root.

Stem, stalk.

The stem of a plant. Cf. caudex, n. rare.

A stalk or stem.

transferred e.g. the stem of a plant, the lower trunk of a tree, the lower slopes of a mountain.

The stem or straight part of anything. Cf. shaft, n.2 The stem of a plant (†Scottish also the trunk of a tree); the pedicel or footstalk of a flower…

†The stem of a plant (obsolete); a tubular vessel (or †cavity) in a plant.

A stalk or branch of a plant. Obsolete. rare.

A stalk, stem, or shoot of a plant, esp. of cereals. ? Obsolete.

A plant stem or root; the trunk of a young tree.

Botany. A long flower-stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome; †gen., a stem or stalk.

with a and plural. A stalk or stem (of a bean, potato, grass, etc.).

A little stalk or stem; spec. (a) ‘the initial stalk or stem in an embryo, the radicle’ (Gray); (b) a small stem proceeding from a bud formed at the…

The stem of a plant; esp. the jointed and usually hollow stalk of grasses.

A stem or shoot of a plant (= Greek θύρσος, Latin thyrsus). Obsolete.

Botany. = scape, n.2 3. Obsolete.

A small stem.

A stem or stalk; a trunk or stump of a tree.

Botany. The stalk or stem of a plant, esp. of a herbaceous plant in its natural state.

The general name for the leaf-bearing axis of a plant; a stem or branch, or any member morphologically corresponding to these.

The shaft of a column; also transferred, in a firearm or cartridge, see quot. 1877; in Botany, see quot. 1900. tige-arm n. a firearm fitted with a…