short-stalked

1. 1.

   of plants having relatively short stalks

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Questions about short-stalked

What does short-stalked mean?

short-stalked means "of plants having relatively short stalks".

How many syllables are in short-stalked?

short-stalked has 2 syllables: short--stalked. The stress falls on "short-".

Is short-stalked a common word?

short-stalked is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.