The plant grows to a large size, full-hearted, with a thick stem.

Why should the core or thick stem of cabbage be used as food?

The fibre of the leaf served as thread, the thick stem as a needle.

This beverage she poured into a square, wide-mouthed flask, into which she placed a thick stem of anis.

The hat was cut from the heart of the cabbage, and a pair of shoes from the thick stem.

I came across a beautiful double daisy flower, with an elongated centre and thick stem, growing on our village green.

The captain looked up at the thick stem with a doubtful expression, and then turned to Hendrick with a nautical shake of the head.

Gusts are strong enough to break the metre- thick stems of the fern trees.

A reasonable-sized bunch of amaryllis, with big, thick stems, may weigh four pounds.

Near the ditch pointed flags are springing up, and the thick stems of the marsh marigold.

The thick stems and leaves had wound themselves into a tentlike roof around the crumbling building.

Plants with heads full of seeds, large as the skulls of infants, lolled from thick stems.

He was now in the shadow and it would be difficult to distinguish him among the thick stems.

Thick stems were interwoven like braids.

If you pinch the thick stems, water will ooze out, for they are partly hollow, like the pond-lily stem.

Wash the spinach and remove any thick stems (you can leave the thin stems of very young spinach).