Definition of "flower-stalk" [flower-stalk]

• In botany, a peduncle or pedicel; the usually leafless part of a stem or branch which bears a flower-cluster or a single flower. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The flower-stalk never attains a height of more than two or three inches, and the leaves are covered with reddish hairs, each of which has a drop of clammy fluid at its tip, making the whole appear as if spangled over with small diamonds."
• "The first is in kindling a fire to burn a run: a dead flower-stalk serves as a torch, and you can touch tussock after tussock literally [Greek text which cannot be reproduced] lighting them at right angles to the wind."
• "In cauliflower and its interestingly angular, green variant, romanesco, the stalk-production stage is extended indefinitely and forms a dense mass or “curd” of immature flower-stalk branches."