cornstalk

noun

Etymology: From corn + stalk.

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.”

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

   “He's a bloody cornstalk.”