Meaning of Cornstalk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
2. A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
3. A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
   Australia, obsolete, slang
4. a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
   Australia, derogatory, slang

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Examples

“Holonym: cornfield”

“As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.”

“He's a bloody cornstalk.”

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