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cornstalk

noun

cornstalk is a noun meaning “The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-N-S-T-A-L-K and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cornstalk is cornstalks.

What does cornstalk mean?

noun

  1. 1

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

    Holonym: cornfield

  2. 2

    A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.

  3. 3

    AustraliaobsoleteslangA non-indigenous person born in Australia.

  4. 4

    Australiaderogatoryslanga non-indigenous native of New South Wales.

    He's a bloody cornstalk.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cornstalk?

  • Australia

Cornstalk has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cornstalk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cornstalk

  • cornstalks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cornstalk?

Cornstalk appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Cornstalk in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesepé de milho (a single specimen of a corn plant), colmo (the tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cornstalk come from?

From corn + stalk.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).