Meanings of slender stalk in inglês

Kirk beheld a marvellous white, dove-shaped flower, nodding upon a slender stalk.

Yes, John; each one is on top of a slender stalk.

Then came the slender stalk; the leaves gradually unfolded themselves; and amid them was a perfect and lovely flower.

The bitter weather of the world bent its slender stalk, bowed its head, and dragged it to the earth.

From a Japanese collection he chose a design representing a cluster of flowers emanating spindle-like, from a slender stalk.

They broke the little fern from its slender stalk, and burying it deep in soft moist clay, hid it safely away.

Above a crown of soft, round leaves rose a long, slender stalk which bore large cups of an indescribably beautiful red.

A few, already awned, stood above their fellows, waving like palms- meadowgrass, fescue, foxtail, brome-grass-eachslender stalk crowned with a tuft.

In winter its slender stalk rises above the snow, bearing its round seed-pods on its pin-like stems, and is pleasing even then.

This day at noon camp she came upon, close to a fallen tree, a wee red flower nodding on its slender stalk.

Its leaves form a close, flat rosette upon the ground, from which a slender stalk rises, with a a single crimson flower.

It had a dainty, slender stalk of ebony black, and its hundred tiny leaves quivered like a shower of green water-drops in the air.

By the spring that gurgled among the redwoods grew another great wild lily, bearing on its slender stalk the prodigious outburst of white waxen bells.

These stand for the Spider's usual basket-work, consisting of slender stalks and dry blades of grass.

The plumpest, purplest of them broke away from their tiny slender stalks at the slightest touch.

On slender stalks the yellow vetchling blooms, reaching ambitiously as tall as the lowest of the brambles.