cornstalk

plural cornstalks

1. biologyThe tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

   Holonym: cornfield

   1 more example

   As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

   1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267

2. biologyA single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
3. AustraliaobsoleteslangA non-indigenous person born in Australia.
4. Australiaderogatoryslanga non-indigenous native of New South Wales.

   He's a bloody cornstalk.