different between stalk vs pedicel

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stôk, IPA^(key): /st??k/
• (US) enPR: stôk, IPA^(key): /st?k/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Homophone: stork (non-rhotic accents), Homophone: stock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English stalke, diminutive of stale (“ladder upright, stalk”), from Old English stalu (“wooden upright”), from Proto-Germanic *stal? (compare Middle Low German stal, stale (“chair leg”)), variant of *steluz, *stel?n (“stalk”) (compare Old English stela, Dutch steel, German Stiel, Danish stilk), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (compare Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek ?????? (stélos, “beam”), Old Armenian ????? (ste?n, “trunk, stalk”)).

Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

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

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

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4. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

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6. (zoology)
   1. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
   2. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
   3. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
7. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-Germanic *stalk?n? (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).

Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalk?n? to a frequentative form of *stelan? (“to steal”).

Verb

stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)

2. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
   • But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

3. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp

4. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
5. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     The king […] crept under the shoulder of his led horse; […] "I must stalk," said he.

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion

     One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.

Conjugation

Translations

Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

1. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
2. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
   • 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

     When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.

Related terms

• stalker

References

Etymology 3

Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.

Verb

stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)

1. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

   • With manly mien he stalked along the ground.

   • 1704, Joseph Addison, Milton's Stile Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third Aeneid

     Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.

   • 1850, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire

     I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.

Translations

Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

1. A haughty style of walking.

Anagrams

• talks

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

stalk

1. first-person singular present indicative of stalken
2. imperative of stalken

English

Alternative forms

• pedicle

Etymology

From Late Latin ped?cellus, diminutive of ped?culus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of p?s (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?d.?s.?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?d.??s?l/

Noun

pedicel (plural pedicels)

1. (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.

   Synonyms: footstalk, strig

   Coordinate term: peduncle

   • 2004, Martine Dorais et al., 5: Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Cuticle Cracking, Jules Janick (editor), Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30, Wiley, page 170,

     Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^{[cuticle cracking]}

2. (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
4. (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
5. (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.

   Synonym: petiole

   1. A petiole; the connection between the thorax and abdomen of an insect of suborder Apocrita.
   2. The connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen of a spider.
      • 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, page 10,

        Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.

   3. The second segment of the antenna of an insect, between the scape and the flagellum.
6. (zoology) The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
   • 1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87,

     Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.

Translations

See also

• peduncle
• petiole

Further reading

• pedicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pedicel (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pedicle

Romanian

Etymology

From French pédicelle.

Noun

pedicel n (plural pedicele)

1. pedicel

Declension