cornstalk (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

(lb, en, botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
(lb, en, botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
(lb, en, Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia. (cite-book, last=Marshall, first=Peter, authorlink= , coauthors= , title=The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, publisher=Cambridge University Press, date=2001, location=Cambridge, page=272, url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521002540, doi= , isbn=978-0521002547) A few decades earlier he^{[a non-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.
(lb, en, Australia, slang, pejorative) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.