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The stalk or stem of a plant.

A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

A sharp or tapering point.

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

To furnish with a spire.

To breathe.

One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.

A spiral.

The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.