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Stalk, the stealthy approach (phase) of a predator towards its prey Stalking , an act of intrusive behaviour or unwanted attention towards a person Deer stalking , the pursuit of deer for sport
With time, the meaning of stalking changed and incorporated individuals being harassed by their former partners. [14] Pathé and Mullen describe stalking as "a constellation of behaviours in which an individual inflicts upon another repeated unwanted intrusions and communications". [ 15 ]
A stalk bearing both the androecium and gynoecium of a flower above the level of insertion of the perianth. androgynous Having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. androphore The stalk or column supporting the stamen s in certain flowers. andromonoecious Having bisexual flowers and male flowers on the same individual plant.
The way the gills attach to the top of the stalk is an important feature of mushroom morphology. Mushrooms in the genera Agaricus, Amanita, Lepiota and Pluteus, among others, have free gills that do not extend to the top of the stalk. Others have decurrent gills that extend down the stalk, as in the genera Omphalotus and Pleurotus. There are a ...
Clove stalks are slender stems of the inflorescence axis that show opposite decussate branching. Externally, they are brownish, rough, and irregularly wrinkled longitudinally with short fracture and dry, woody texture. Mother cloves (anthophylli) are the ripe fruits of cloves that are ovoid, brown berries, unilocular and one-seeded.
The word scape (Latin scapus, from Greek σκαΎ¶πος), as used in botany, is fairly vague and arbitrary; various sources provide divergent definitions.Some older usages simply amount to a stem or stalk in general, [3] but modern formal usage tends to favour the likes of "A long flower stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome", [3] or "a long, naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, rising ...
Gang stalking or group-stalking is a set of persecutory beliefs in which those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people. [1]
The empty hollow in the stalks of larger bamboo is often used to cook food in many Asian cultures. Soups are boiled and rice is cooked in the hollows of fresh stalks of bamboo directly over a flame. Similarly, steamed tea is sometimes rammed into bamboo hollows to produce compressed forms of pu'er tea. Cooking food in bamboo is said to give the ...