stalk

/stɔːk/noun
ElementaryNot in standard dictionaries
1

The stem or main axis of a plant.

2

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.

3

Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

4

An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

5

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

6

A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.

7

The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

8

The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

9

An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

10

Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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