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Noun:

  • botany A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
  • botany The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
  • Australian English|slang a native (not indigenous) of pejoratively or even abusively. last = Marshall | first = Peter | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2001 | location = Cambridge | pages = 272 | url = http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521002540 | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0521002547 ''...by 1872 'cornstalk' had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh''

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