Stalked

a. [f. STALK sb.¹ + -ED².] Having a stalk or stalks; in Nat. Hist., Pathology, etc., opposed to sessile. Also in parasynthetic combs., long-stalked, red-stalked, etc. (see the first element); in some of these some writers have ignorantly substituted an adv. for the first element, as firmly, shortly stalked.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Aloe, The African stalk’d Aloe.

1806.  J. Grahame, Birds Scot., 19. A flower … firmly stalked, of form Pyramidal.

1840.  Pereira, Elem. Mat. Med., II. 1266. Sinapis nigra.… Lower leaves lyrate;… Stalked.

1847.  Steele, Field Bot., 123. Flowers in stalked clusters.

1857.  T. Moore, Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3), 68. Pinnæ opposite, the lower pair largest, obliquely triangular, shortly stalked.

1863.  Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., III. 648. One species of Stalked Barnacle.

1874.  Lubbock, Orig. & Met. Ins., iii. 59. The stalked Crinoids.

1883.  Encycl. Brit., XVI. 669/2. The suckers are stalked and strengthened by a horny ring.

1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 955. Frequently they [i.e., islets of mucous membrane caused by ulceration] are more or less stalked because of the ulceration which undermines them.

  b.  Her. Of a plant: Having the stalk of a specified tincture.

1864.  Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xix. (ed. 3), 304. A rose or, stalked ppr.

  c.  Comb.: stalked-eyed a. = stalk-eyed (see STALK sb.¹ 9).

1882.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., VI. 206. Many species, both of the Podophthalmia (or stalked-eyed) and Edriophthalmia (or sessile-eyed) Crustacea.