What is a cornstalk?

What is a cornstalk? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
  2. (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
  3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
  4. (pejorative) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
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Shooting a low, slow goose that decides to fly about cornstalk high in a straight line right across your gun barrel is a different story.
We know that we are close but we are not quite there in being able to use the cornstalk and perhaps the corncob as opposed to the corn kernel in biofuel production.
But cornstalk and Logan would not lead a big force into any of the valleys.
Mr. Davis has analyzed his watershed almost to the last cornstalk.
Jophiel cocked his head, his cornstalk hair dipping in front of his sightless eyes.
We would use the corncob and the cornstalk right down to the roots.

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