Definition of "cornstalk" [corn•stalk]

• The stalk or stem of a corn plant. (noun)

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• "Her stall was soon filled, or partly filled, and this time with a native, -- a specimen of what may be called the cornstalk breed of"
• "The newcomer was not an Adonis, perhaps, but he was one compared with the awkward, leaning Tower of Pisa "cornstalk," who carried the jack-knife as "the homeliest man in the section.""
• "Also: menacing scarecrows, constructed from pumpkin heads and cornstalk bodies, and a mobile of flying bats hanging under the White House portico."