hollow stalk

hollow stalk

[′häl·ō ′stȯk]
(plant pathology)
Any plant disease characterized by deterioration of the pith in the stalk.
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It's your inside as isn't right made for music: it's no better nor a hollow stalk."
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It is notable that the reconstructed root *pucki- 'burst' is homonymous with another well-established PU root *pucki 'tube; stalk; Angelica (a plant with a hollow stalk)'.
Also the meaning of a type of plant with a hollow stalk is found in SlkEl put 'Angelica (Russ.
Studies in Uralic etymology II: Finnic etymologies
The cap looks like it's been fashioned from beaten copper and is attached to the hollow stalk with a loose-spring.
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The frondlike animals were up to 7.5 centimeters long and anchored themselves to the seafloor with a hollow stalk, says Simon Conway Morris, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge in England.
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"Bamboo lumber products are made front bamboo strips cut from the walls off the hollow stalk that can be up to an inch thick," Hunter explains.
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Freeman Rowe, a retired science instructor at Lane Community College, saw what happened when an LCC student tried to make a didgeridoo, a droning wind instrument, using the hollow stalk of a giant hogweed in the Broadway alley.
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The hollow stalk emerges, the stalk-end thickens and forms a sphere, meeting the skin's interior.
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Organ pipe lichen (Cladonia crispata) has tall, thin, hollow stalks with ragged, open, gear-like or cup-like tops.
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Not only do the hollow stalks taste nice, but they look very striking too.
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