Need another word that means the same as “stalk”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “stalk” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Stalk” are: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble, stem, stalking, still hunt, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, reed, haunt
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stalk” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| bent | A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way. She had no natural bent for literature. |
| bine | European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America. |
| cane | Any plant that produces canes. Raspberry canes. |
| chaff | Chopped hay and straw used as fodder. He hopes to separate scientifically supported claims from pseudoscientific chaff. |
| haulm | A stalk or stem. Potato haulm. |
| husk | The dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds. The husks of dead bugs. |
| reed | A rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw. A reed relay. |
| shoot | A shooting match. Follow the portages that skirt all nine shoots of whitewater. |
| shuck | A person or thing regarded as worthless or contemptible. He said the idea was a shuck. |
| stalking | The act of following prey stealthily. |
| stem | The root or main part of a word, to which inflections or formative elements are added. Her fingers tightened on the stem of her glass. |
| still hunt | A static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes. |
| stock | Farm animals such as cattle pigs and sheep bred and kept for their meat or milk livestock. I felt I was right but my stock was low with this establishment. |
| straw | A pale yellow colour like that of straw. The tramp sat chewing a straw. |
| stubble | Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. Stubble burning. |
| trunk | An enclosed shaft or conduit for cables or ventilation. He put his golf bag in the trunk. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stalk” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| haunt | Haunt like a ghost pursue. She haunts the ballet. |
| barley | The grain of barley. |
| bean | A leguminous plant that bears beans in pods. He didn t have a bean. |
| bud | Develop buds. A budding friendship. |
| chaff | The husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing. He hopes to separate scientifically supported claims from pseudoscientific chaff. |
| corn | The dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal. Fields of corn. |
| crop | Yield crops. The southern areas are cropped in cotton. |
| defoliate | Remove leaves from (a tree, plant, or area of land), for agricultural purposes or as a military tactic. A defoliated poplar. |
| flower | A flower together with its stalk picked for use as a decoration. She flowered into as striking a beauty as her mother. |
| grain | Form into grains. He scored along the grain of the table with the knife. |
| grass | A mainly herbaceous plant with jointed stems and spikes of small wind pollinated flowers predominant in grass. Anglers grassed 294 trout. |
| hay | Convert plant material into hay. The grass had all hayed off and gone to seed. |
| husk | Remove the husks from. They set up mills to husk the rice. |
| leaf | A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin. An oak leaf. |
| liana | The free hanging stem of a liana. |
| ovule | A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization. |
| pedicel | A small stalk bearing an individual flower in an inflorescence. |
| petiole | The slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf. |
| plant | Put or set seeds seedlings or plants into the ground. Inadequate investment in new plant. |
| planter | The owner or manager of a plantation. Hanging baskets tubs and planters. |
| pollen | A fine powdery substance typically yellow consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone Each grain contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule to which pollen is transported by the wind insects or other animals. |
| rick | Pile in ricks. The nine cords of good spruce wood ricked up in the back yard. |
| seed | Go to seed shed seeds. You can grow artichokes from seed. |
| shuck | Remove the shucks from maize or shellfish. Shuck oysters. |
| sprout | Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots. The potatoes sprouted. |
| stem | Remove the stem from. The main stem of the wing feathers. |
| straw | Of a pale yellow color like straw straw colored. The tramp sat chewing a straw. |
| tree | A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree. This lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer. |
| vine | A climbing or trailing woody stemmed plant related to the grapevine. The vines of a vast wisteria. |
| wheat | Grains of common wheat sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal usually ground into flour. |
| winnow | (of the wind) blow. Amidst this welter of confusing signals it s difficult to winnow out the truth. |
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