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stalk

noun

The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.

  • A stalk of wheat, rye, or oats

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The word "stalk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the stem of a plant, or to refer to a person following or watching someone, usually in a menacing way. For example, "The suspect was seen stalking the victim outside her home."

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Find out about their clients, their work and stalk them on LinkedIn.

The flower buds, like milky pearls held in the green clasp of its pointed green sepals, held aloft on a four-inch stalk, were still closed.

We do stalk him quite a bit in that way.

Large predator expert Dave Salmoni investigates the crisis and finds that it's worsening, as the tigers are actually teaching their cubs how to hunt humans; they stalk their victims from behind and deliver a lethal blow to the neck.

The book's Francescho section is prefaced by the drawing of a pair of eyes held on a delicate plant's stalk – itself a version, by Smith's partner, film-maker Sarah Wood, of a detail of a del Cossa of St Lucy, patron saint of oculists, blind people and writers; according to tradition, she had her eyes taken out by her Roman oppressors.

Especially on a Saturday afternoon when fiercely stylish women in spikey heels and fur coats, and imposing couples with perfectly groomed dogs stalk from exclusive boutique to exclusive boutique.

Indeed, it presents the diner with a problem – where to dump a piece of a parsley stalk covered in hollandaise sauce?

Looking around from my perch, I spotted a dragonfly resting on a stalk of grass, just five feet away, every detail picked out by sunlight so that it glittered and shone.

But like all children, you have to stalk them and watch and wait".

"So if you want…" To stalk someone?

The rest scatter quickly; yet a shooter picks them off one by one with uncanny accuracy.Pigs are clever and hard to hunt; it can take a day to stalk one.

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