Cryptic crossword clue
Check   stalk of plant 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STEM

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The straight part

We know that "Check/stalk of plant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case check/stalk of plant = stem.

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What does STEM mean?

1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. A branch of a family.
3. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
4. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
5. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
6. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
7. The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
8. A person's leg.
9. The penis.
10. A vertical stroke of a letter.
11. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
12. A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
13. The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
14. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
15. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
16. A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
17. (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

1. To remove the stem from.
2. To be caused or derived; to originate.
3. To descend in a family line.
4. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
5. To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
6. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

1. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
2. To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.

1. A gleam of light; a flame.

1. Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

1. An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.

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