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Sentence Examples Stalk these bugs vigilantly when they first appear, and you may be able to save your viny vegetables organically this year. Stalk lengths shredded in the transverse direction of the leafstalk do not give rise to any problems and need not be removed. Stalk borer larvae injure corn plants in June and early July. Stalk borer damage in corn commonly is confined to occasional plants in the first few rows near field margins, fence rows, grass terraces and waterways. The main stalk and side shoots are ready for harvest once the flower buds start to form. Feeding also may continue after emergence as wireworms tunnel into the lower stalk of corn plants. Then she plants the stalk in warm, moist soil, where it grows into a full plant. A couple of weeks before the dramatic colours of autumn begin to appear, a layer of cells starts to grow where the leaf stalk joins the branch. These buds are themselves developing beside the leaf stalk on the shoots as they grow in spring. The dura also forms a diaphragm above the pituitary gland, through which passes the pituitary stalk, joining the gland to the hypothalamus. The tip of the optic stalk is a considerable distance from the surface ectoderm. Later eocrinoids evolved a long stalk with columnals, like crinoids and blastoids. This ambulatory session is done by a preliminary biopsy of the gland stalk and with minimum invasive laparoscopic instrumentation. Finally, the retina and retinal pigment epithelium differentiate from the optic cup, and the optic nerve develops from the optic stalk. This fossil has been reconstructed with a hypothetical stalk anchored in the substrate, as if supporting a frondose body in a reclined position. The first time I indicated, I nearly put the car on cruise control, which is what the visible stalk to the left of the wheel actually does. A few sweet roots, parsnips, carrots and a stalk of celery will add flavour to the pan juices. To produce a new plant, each tuber must have an eye which appears at the point where the tuber connects to the main stalk. These inconspicuous larvae cling to the stalk of the plant and can easily go unnoticed. The flowers grow in a raceme, an unbranched stalk that blooms from the bottom up. Show More Sentences Insects such as root worm and stalk borer create wounds that serve as entry points for disease-causing fungi. Disease then develops in the stalk and rapidly spreads up the stalk and into the leaves. There was a brightly colored winged insect perched on a stalk of tall grass. She interweaves dark outlines and flatter strokes of paint in rendering a dangling stalk. The cruise controls mounted on the indicator stalk are hidden by the steering wheel. The future is always depicted as a place where a technical fix has gone wrong, where androids stalk a devastated urban landscape. The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition. The elusive, spotted-coat cats secretly stalk their prey until just the right moment. Notwithstanding their general similarity, the archegonia of mosses differ externally from antheridia in having a longer neck and longer stalk. This was due to an erroneous assumption, i.e., that the stalk has a figure of revolution of a circular arc. Since the original papers the shape of the stalk was not calculated but rather postulated to be the figure of revolution of a circular arc. She picked up a half-eaten apple core by the stalk, then dropped it disgustedly into a corner. However, C. sanwuia, with both a calyx and a stalk, differs from phoronids in mode of life and body architecture. First, we deal with the case of elastic legs that are connected to the stalk through a free joint. The stalk control used to operate the radio also seems less effective then Renault's version. However, one problem encountered during the test drives was the closeness of the indicator stalk with that controlling the cruise control system. As usual with Saab, the design of the instruments and controls is almost perfect although the cruise control stalk is partly hidden from view. Newly angry over the death of my beloved hamster, I stalk over to the stairs, with Zillah still in my arms. They envision hunters coming here to stalk elk, loggers to fell selected trees. October is an excellent month to stalk the shorelines of small lakes and ponds for aggressive bass. Show More Sentences Remove the stalk from leafy vegetables such as sorrel, spinach and silverbeet. Old British cars used to have an indicator stalk similarly disposed, and it feels entirely natural in such machines. One of them gives this part angry, part horrified squeak, and then they stalk off as well as they can in the knee-deep snow. When the winter has been mild like this year, the flower stalk will elongate in early March. She says the legal system is not doing enough to protect women, and in some cases is aiding and abetting men who stalk former partners. Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away. Some deep-sea crinoids have a third body portion, the stalk. We have just passed through the witching hour that is Hallowe'en, relic of a medieval past when ghosts and spirits were thought to stalk the land on All Hallow's Eve. To prepare parsley for chopping, pull leaves from the main stalk. Cavities form at the base of the stalk on severely diseased plants. Linen is from flax, a bast fiber taken from the stalk of the plant. The other controls are familiar to all BMW users, but it was a little too easy to catch the stalk for cruise control when trying to operate the turn indicators. The only really hidden item was the stalk with the cruise control, but since I personally dislike cruise control, this was no great loss from my point of view. For the driver, the instruments are easy to read and use, although the door mirror control is hidden by a steering wheel stalk, and a bit of fumbling is needed to use it. The stalk lengthens as the fetus develops within its amniotic sac, and at the uterine end the blood vessels become part of the developing placenta. The number of florets on the flower stalk depends on the size of the bulb. They stalk the darkness between the trees, hunting for the living. The flower-head consists of a set of petals arranged in radial symmetry around a cluster of stamens, and the flower-head is carried on a stalk which bears a set of leaves. Sorghum juice can be extracted for fermentation and distillation without damaging the grain at the top of the stalk. The two plants have dissimilar appearance, maize having a single tall stalk with multiple leaves and teosinte being a short, bushy plant. Show More Sentences Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem. The fennel variety finocchia grows like a stalk of celery and can be eaten raw or as a boiled vegetable. The girls had been out to the oat-stacks, each with a kiddhoge over her eyes to pull out a stalk and see when she'd be getting married. The way the gills attach to the top of the stalk is an important feature of mushroom morphology. Mushrooms in the genera Agaricus, Amanita, Lepiota and Pluteus, among others, have free gills that do not extend to the top of the stalk. Others have decurrent gills that extend down the stalk, as in the genera Omphalotus and Pleurotus. Above the stem plate is the storage organ consisting of bulb scales, surrounding the previous flower stalk and the terminal bud. The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. Rats on the island of Norderoog in the North Sea stalk and kill sparrows and ducks. In the oldest method still used today, the entire plant is harvested at once by cutting off the stalk at the ground with a tobacco knife. In the 19th century, bright tobacco began to be harvested by pulling individual leaves off the stalk as they ripened. The leafy stalk of the plant produces separate pollen and ovuliferous inflorescences or ears, which are fruits, yielding kernels or seeds. Modern farming techniques in developed countries usually rely on dense planting, which produces one ear per stalk. The stalk continues downward and is crumpled into a mangled pile on the ground, where it usually is left to become organic matter for the soil. It has stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in the sugar sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes. If too late, the pods will snap off at the stalk, and will remain in the soil. Remove only dead flowers, not the living bloom stalk, which is actually a pseudobulb commonly called a cane. They drain the stalk out with their arms, quick-handed, and cleanse it with a stream of mead and filters. The use of milkweed stalk fibre has also been reported, but it tends to be somewhat weaker than other fibres like hemp or flax. The sporophyte body comprises a long stalk, called a seta, and a capsule capped by a cap called the operculum. Show More Sentences One is termed a peduncular gland, and consists of a few secretory cells on top of a single stalk cell. The leaves of Carex comprise a blade, which extends away from the stalk, and a sheath, which encloses part of the stalk. Dried up patches appear at the fruit's stalk end and small white maggots are often seen inside the fruits. Dried up patches appear at the fruit's stalk end in summer and small white maggots are often seen inside the fruits. I can still tie a reef knot and even stalk a man-eating lion, crucial around our way. Loggerhead shrikes and northern harriers frequent the area, and during the winter, sandhill cranes stalk insects. When hunting bezoars, good optics enhance your spot-and-stalk efforts, and where I was hunting there were plenty of animals to stalk. Arranged around the base of the structural stalk, this lowest subterranean floor houses a screening room, archives, technical facilities and storage. Lily of the Nile is the most popular local herbaceous perennial, whose nodding inflorescences include dozens of mauve blue florets per flower stalk. Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors. And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. The ear of maize is too large to pass between slots in a plate as the snap rolls pull the stalk away, leaving only the ear and husk to enter the machinery. Members of the Rubus genus tend to have a brittle, porous core and an oily residue along the stalk which makes them ideal to burn, even in damp climates. The word cawl in Welsh is first recorded in the 14th century, and is thought to come from the Latin caulis, meaning the stalk of a plant, a cabbage stalk or a cabbage. They consist of a stalk called a seta and a single sporangium or capsule. Case in point, many fast fighters have their hands down and have almost exaggerated footwork, while brawlers or bully fighters tend to slowly stalk their opponents. As the egg expands, the universal veil ruptures and may remain as a cup, or volva, at the base of the stalk, or as warts or volval patches on the cap. Examples from Classical Literature The intra-embryonic portion of the allantoic stalk gives rise to two structures, viz. You can have some fun with the daffodil stalk, too, after taking off the flowers. Two or more of the radial nervures in the forewing arise from a common stalk or are suppressed. So they scampered all about, and there was not a mouse which did not look under every stalk of straw. The minute inner filaments of sclerenchyma are never continued far up the stalk, and are sometimes wanting altogether. This stolon is simply the stalk by which each median bud was primitively attached to the stolon of the first asexual form. The allantoic stalk, if present, was not clearly made out, and the condition of the amnion was also not fully studied. The fronds of the ebony spleenwort usually face the sun, even if so doing necessitates the twisting of its stalk. Krause maintains that all the other embryos shewing an allantoic stalk at an early age are pathological. To prepare it for market the leaves are cut before the seed stalk appears, and after washing are barrelled or crated for shipment. The bread of the country is made from a root that looks like the batata, the stalk of which is like alder. The bugloss belongs to what may be called beautiful weeds, despite its rough and bristly stalk. These remain close behind the yellow flower and do not fold back against the stalk as in the bulbous buttercup. Riding back we saw some burrhel on the opposite hills, too far off to make a successful stalk possible. When the caddis fly felt like laying eggs, she crawled down the stalk of one of the pond plants and laid them there. Both Foxgloves and Canterbury bells sow themselves profusely if stalk is left to perfect its seeds. It is also applied to the stalk or petiole of a carpel, in the rare cases when there is any, as in Goldthread. This swollen portion of the stalk has a pleasant acid taste, and is eaten under 446 the name of cashew apple. At this point, Marcus noticed a brown something bearing a strong resemblance to the swamp stalk, known among boys as the cattail. In the middle ages the general literary term throughout Europe was coles from caulis, a stalk, and virga, a rod. Show More Sentences A chrysanthemum on a longer stalk than the others bent its petals into the light. He fixed his claspers firmly to the stalk, then stretched his head as far as he could reach, and nibbled the leaf edge backwards. The cavity of the allantois, by means of its stalk passing through the umbilicus, is of course continuous with the cloaca. Lepidopteran stalk borers are among the most damaging pests in sugarcane production. Rapidly we discussed the advisability of trying to stalk the game, but in the end dismissed it reluctantly. It rocks and rocks, but a stalk of asphodel may shift it from its centre. Is there always a bud in the axil where the leaf stalk joins the twig? Then cut off each stalk about two inches from its junction with the corm. One urchin shall hereafter be a doctor, and administer pills and potions, and stalk gravely through life, perfumed with assafoetida. After he never emerged from the bush, I figured he bedded down and I began my stalk. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily. This plate is called the episternum, and its stalk the omosternum. The traps are used to reduce the spread of fruit stalk borer and stem borer. Bob Johnson was stripping a stalk of alfalfa in his fingers. Each student carried a stalk of sugar-cane with some open bolls of cotton fastened to the end of it. If stalk is stringy scrape off outer layer, remove centre choke. Endoscopic evaluation usually reveals a polypoid mass attached by a thin pedicle or stalk that has partially occluded the larynx and created a ball-valve effect. Find more words! 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