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# beanstalk

«beanstalk» in Mova's school dictionary: **The tall stem of a bean plant that climbs up a pole or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a beanstalk, beanstalks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The tall stem of a bean plant that climbs up a pole or string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#m1)

2) The magic giant beanstalk in the fairy tale «Jack and the Beanstalk» that grows up into the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons children grow bean plants to see how stems grow towards the light and how climbing plants twist around supports. In stories and pantomime it brings to mind Jack, the magic beans, the giant and «Fee-fi-fo-fum». Phrases: «climb the beanstalk», «Jack and the Beanstalk».

### examples

- Jack climbed the beanstalk up into the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x1)
- Our beanstalk grew ten centimetres in a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x2)
- The beanstalk curled around the bamboo cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x3)
- In the play, I was the giant at the top of the beanstalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x4)
- We measured the beanstalk every Monday and drew a graph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x5)
- The magic beans grew into an enormous beanstalk overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x6)
- Grandad's runner beans have very long beanstalks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/#x7)

### note

Countable compound noun: bean + stalk, written as one word. Plural: beanstalks. «Stalk» here means stem (not «to stalk», which means to follow someone secretly). In maths lessons, beanstalk growth is often used for measuring and drawing line graphs.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beanstalk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beanstalk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.