cornstalks

Field of green

Cornstalks are the tall stems of corn plants, typically standing six to ten feet high when mature.

After harvest, the dried stalks remain in fields as stubble or are gathered for animal feed, silage, or autumn decoration.

Cornstalks rustled in the wind.

The kids got lost in a maze of cornstalks.

agriculture

husk

Dry seed covering

  • tasselOrnamental hanging cluster
  • silageFermented crop fodder
  • fodderCoarse livestock nourishment

cultivation · irrigation · plowing · sowing · fertilizer · pesticide · herbicide · combine · tractor · monoculture

anatomy

tassels

Ornamental hanging tufts

  • leavesTree's photosynthetic organs
  • husksDry seed coverings
  • earsAuditory organs, paired

cobs · kernels · nodes · internodes · tillers · silk · pith · sheath · blade · midrib

autumn

hayride

Wagon ride through fields

bundled · dried · rustling · golden · browning · frost · decoration · seasonal

rural

pastoral

Of countryside or clergy care

homestead · meadow · prairie · rustic · scarecrow · windmill · fencing · horizon · heartland · flatland

harvest

combine

Merge, or harvesting machine

sickle · husking · shucking · winnowing · picker · baler · yield · gleaning · cropping · bushels

maze

labyrinth

Intricate passage network

turns · pathway · disorientation · navigation · challenge · exploration · dead-end · exit · entrance · strategy

Categories
Opposites
plant part

cornstalkscorn kernels

Edible seeds from cobs

maize · corn seed · corn cobs · corn · cornmeal

agricultural state

cornstalkscleared land

plowed field · stubble · tilled soil

plant structure type

cornstalksground cover

Low plants preventing erosion

root vegetables · tubers · rootstock

Family

cornstalk

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G