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Meanings of stalk-like in English

Stalklike.

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Examples for "stalklike"
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There sponges grew in every shape, globular, stalklike, leaflike, fingerlike.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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Some of these were vaguely palmlike while others seemed to be more stalklike, with only a hint of foliage around the upper stem.
Analog sff, december 2009
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As he dropped his head on one side, it looked too heavy for the stemlike neck, but it conveyed an impression of immense intellectual power.
The Second Deluge
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Recently, the interconversion between differentiated and stem-like cancer cells has been observed.
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Curcumin also significantly decreased anchorage-independent clonogenic growth and reduced the CD133-positive stem-like population.
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These findings suggest that these compounds are able to inhibit leukemia stem-like cells.
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Tumor cells with stem-like properties preferentially survive radiation and give rise to glioma recurrence.
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Mammospheres with the characteristics of stem-like cells were collected by long-term serum-free suspension cultivation.
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Usage of stalk-like in English
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Rocks were on every side, with little patches of the coarsest kind of growth, brushwood, stalk-like grass, and cacti.
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields; Or, The Search for the Landslide...
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Follow my lead." To the Sister, who is casting about with her stalk-like Thaumic Thixometer: "I have control!"
Down On The Farm
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Imaging and endoscopy showed a gray-white, polypoid, stalk-like mass, with a bulky pedicle located in the middle and lower esophagus.
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Again, with his left hand, Mr. Jones mopped his frontal bone, his stalk-like neck, his razor jaws, his fleshless chin.
Victory: An Island Tale
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The posterior end of the animal is reduced to a stalk-like structure which is broadened at the extremity to form a sucking disk.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...