tallo

n. thallus, sprout (Botany)

n. stalk, stem, shaft

v. cut, incise; shape; measure; work; bother, annoy; gossip

= stem, stalk, spur.
Ex: The disease symptoms observed were general plant and leaf stunting, leaf chlorosis, leaf and stem necrosis and plant death.
Ex: Printing types are representations in reverse of letters of the alphabet, cast in relief on the ends of rectangular lead-alloy stalks about 24 mm. high.
Ex: Cherry trees in general produce the fruit upon small spurs, from half an inch to two inches in length, which proceed from the sides and ends of the branches.

= carve, cut, carve out, hew.
Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
Ex: Fraktur, cut with a contrived formality that belied its cursive origins, became the most successful of all the gothic types, surviving as a book face in Germany until the mid twentieth century.
Ex: In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations & communicative strategies.
Ex: Oak was shaped by splitting with wooden wedges, and by hewing with axes or adzes.
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* tallar con una navaja = whittle.