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Gortyna nitela
Stalk Stalk, n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, stel, a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. (b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. 2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. --Grew. 3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer. 5. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. (b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. (c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. 6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.

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- Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Gr****: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced [ˈɣortina]) is a muni****lity, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean...
- The Gortyn code (also called the Great Code) was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Gr**** city-state of Gortyn in southern...
- information available about marriage in the city of Gortyn in ancient times, in the form of the legal text the Gortyn code. The ancient Gr**** legislators considered...
- Gortyna /ɡɔːrˈtaɪnə/ (Ancient Gr****: Γόρτυνα; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form...
- composed of: the Archbishopric of Crete, based at Heraklion the Metropolis of Gortyn and Arkadia, based at Moires the Metropolis of Rethymno and Mylopotamos...
- 6th to 4th centuries BC, Crete was comparatively free from warfare. The Gortyn code (5th century BC) is evidence for how codified civil law established...
- Inheritance law, part of the Law Code of Gortyn, Crete, fragment of the 11th column. Limestone, 5th century BC...
- the Gr**** island of Crete built a 50 km road leading from the palace of Gortyn on the south side of the island, through the mountains, to the palace of...
- sons. In Sparta, they were called patrouchoi (πατροῦχοι), as they were in Gortyn. Athenian women were not allowed to hold property in their own name; in...
- Roman aqueducts | Gortyn(a) (Greece / Crete). [Gortyn] Wikimapia location: Gortyn Roman circus. [Gortyn] The Circus | Circus of Gortyn at circusmaximus...