- a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- a stemlike part, as a footstalk; stalk.
- a stalk in plants that bears reproductive structures, esp the stalk bearing the cap of a mushroom
- the stalk that bears the leaflets of a fern or the thallus of a seaweed
- any stalklike part; stipes
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