cornstalk

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English - Turkish
Mısır koçanı
mısır sap
mısır sapı
English - English
A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn
a native (not indigenous) of New South Wales (may be archaic and used pejoratively or even abusively. (Can we this quote?) Marshall, Peter, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521002547, page 272: ...by 1872 'cornstalk' had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh)

He's a bloody cornstalk. - He is from New South Wales.

The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest
{n} a stalk or stem of maiz
A stalk of Indian corn
{i} stalk of a corn plant
cornstalks
plural of cornstalk
cornstalk

    Hyphenation

    corn·stalk

    Turkish pronunciation

    kôrnstôk

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkôrnˌstôk/ /ˈkɔːrnˌstɔːk/

    Etymology

    [ 'korn-"stok ] (noun.) 1645. corn + stalk
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