Definition of cornstalk
:a stalk of corn
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The dugouts are only feet away from the cornstalks.
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All around her in the hallowed clearing, green shoots of new cornstalks broke through the straw.
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The hotel's fence isn't the only cornstalk fence in town.
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Then came the iconic cornstalk fence by which everyone now knows that building.
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Customers work their way through the puzzle that is cut into higher-than-your-head cornstalks.
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Nicolas Bartolo turned off Highway 51 at the town of Tlapehuala and headed south on a dirt road through fields of dead cornstalks.
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People stood in a field of cornstalks, the eastern horizon a pale pink with the coming of dawn.
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First Known Use of cornstalk
1645
CORNSTALK Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of cornstalk for English Language Learners
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: the long stem of a corn plant (sense 1)
CORNSTALK Defined for Kids
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Definition of cornstalk for Students
:a stalk of corn
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