stalk - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organgynophore - the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle carpophore - a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel cane - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus cutting, slip - a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting tuber - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage rhizome, rootstalk, rootstock - a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure axis - the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged caudex - woody stem of palms and tree ferns internode - a segment of a stem between two nodes receptacle - enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts caudex, stock - persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant stipe - supporting stalk or stemlike structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap flower stalk, scape - erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip bulb - a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure corm - solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure branch - a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant culm - stem of plants of the Gramineae halm, haulm - stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding tree trunk, trunk, bole - the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber |