Stalk vs Pedicle - What's the difference?
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The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
:(Grew)
(lb) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
:(Chaucer)
(label)
#A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
#The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
#The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(lb) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(lb) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
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*:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking .
(lb) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.(w)
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(lb) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
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(lb) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:The king"I must stalk ," said he.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk .
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
A hunt (of a wild animal).
To walk haughtily.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Mericale
(zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
* {{quote-book, year=1867, author=William Henry Smyth, title=The Sailor's Word-Book, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles'', termed ''soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades." }}
(zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=John T. McCutcheon, title=In Africa, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features. }}
A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
* {{quote-book, year=1859, author=Joseph Maclise, title=Surgical Anatomy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--Figure 3. Fig. 4, Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=George M. Gould, title=Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, title=The Mason-bees, chapter=, edition=
, passage=One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle , which is as long as the egg proper. }}
* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=January 9, Patrick J. Gannon et al., Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog, Science
, passage=The chimpanzee Heschl's gyrus homolog also showed evidence of a strongly excavated middle Heschl's sulcus, within the confines of a single gyral pedicle , predominantly in the right hemisphere. }}
* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Maarten Kamermans et al., Hemichannel-Mediated Inhibition in the Outer Retina, Science
, passage=The surface of the extracellular space at the base of the cone pedicle in goldfish has been estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 µm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used [ C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al''., ''Vision Res. }}
As nouns the difference between stalk and pedicle
is that stalk is the stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts or stalk can be a particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone while pedicle is (zoology) a fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.As a verb stalk
is (lb) to approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer or stalk can be to walk haughtily.stalk
English
(wikipedia stalk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) stalke, diminutive of stale'' 'ladder upright, stalk', from (etyl) stalu 'wooden upright', from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stalken, from (etyl) -).Robert K. Barnhart and Sol Steinmetz, eds., ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology , s.v. "stalk2" (New York: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2006), 1057. Alternate etymology connects (etyl) 'to steal'.Verb
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Etymology 3
1530, 'to walk haughtily', perhaps from (etyl) 'high, lofty, steep, stiff'; see aboveVerb
(en verb)- With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
- Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----pedicle
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