Meaning

4 senses
  1. The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

    Holonym: cornfield

    the stalk of a corn plant

  2. A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.

  3. (Australia, derogatory, slang)A non-indigenous native of New South Wales.

    He's a bloody cornstalk.

  4. (Australia, obsolete, slang)A non-indigenous person born in Australia.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From corn + stalk.

From corn + stalk.

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Forms

plural: cornstalks
Singularcornstalk
Pluralcornstalks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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