STALKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stalked mean? 

• STALKED (adjective)
  The adjective STALKED has 1 sense:

1. having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk

  Familiarity information: STALKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk

Synonyms:

pedunculate; stalked

Context example:

a pedunculate barnacle is attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

 Context examples 

How could I explain to her the situation, the strange man who stalked the sea like Destiny, all that it had taken me months to learn?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With that she stalked out, and made the door bang after her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She remained as close to the horror as on the first morning when the unexpected stalked into the cabin and took possession.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He included us all in a sweeping bow and stalked out of the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fuller looked sadly and gravely at him; but finding that he still laughed, he bowed with much mock politeness and stalked onwards in his borrowed clothes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Calmly turning his back upon young dog and shin-bone, as though both were beneath his notice and unworthy of his consideration, he stalked grandly away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck stalked into the open, half crouching, body gathered compactly together, tail straight and stiff, feet falling with unwonted care.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a momentary lull, broken by Hannah, who stalked in, laid two hot turnovers on the table, and stalked out again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff- rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was but a short walk, and yet it took us some time, for my uncle stalked along with great dignity, his lace-bordered handkerchief in one hand, and his cane with the clouded amber head dangling from the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)