cornstalk

Noun

cornstalk (plural cornstalks)

1. The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
   • Holonym: cornfield
   • 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. A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
3. (Australia, obsolete, slang) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
4. (Australia, derogatory, slang) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
   • He's a bloody cornstalk.