cornstalk

cornstalk englannista suomeksi

1. viljankorsi

0. Substantiivi

cornstalk englanniksi

1. The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

2. (quote-book)

3. A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.

4. A non-indigenous person born in Australia. (cite-book) A few decades earlier henon-indigenous person of Australian birth would have been nicknamed a ‘cornstalk’, a sarcastic reference to the way in which Australian children, like colonial wheat, grew fast and gangly; but labels could change with great rapidity, and by 1882 ‘cornstalk’ had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh.

5. a non-indigenous native of South Wales.

''He's a bloody cornstalk.''