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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds;
[syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble]

2. short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stubble \Stub"ble\, n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. ['e]tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. Stipule.] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] Stubble goose (Zool.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stubble n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble] 2: short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "stubble": Vandyke, afterglow, afterimage, balance, barb, barbel, beard, beaver, bones, bristle, bristles, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, down, draff, dregs, dust, end, fag end, filings, fossil, garbage, gash, goatee, hogwash, holdover, husks, imperial, leavings, lees, leftovers, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, peach fuzz, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, setula, setule, shadow, shards, shavings, side whiskers, slack, slag, slop, slops, straw, striga, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tares, trace, tuft, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whiskers