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stem
  1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  2. A branch of a family.
  3. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  4. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
  5. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
  6. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  7. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
  8. (slang) A person's leg.
  9. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
  10. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
  11. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
  12. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
  13. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
  14. (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
  15. (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
  16. Synonyms:
  17. Examples:
    1. “I watched one bee make a bad landing, slip off, fall backwards, bounce off a branch in the stem of the flower, and land on her back on the ground.”
      “The woman leaned her head back against the large stem of the tree and took a few slow breaths.”
stemming
  1. (nautical) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.
  2. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
  3. (rock climbing) The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position.
  4. Synonyms:
stemson
  1. (nautical) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The stemson is so far decayed, principally in its outer part, as to make it absolutely necessary to be shifted.”
stemborer
  1. Any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems.
stemflow
  1. (hydrology) The flow of intercepted water down the trunk or stem of a plant.
stemmer
  1. (computing) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To support document retrieval in Bahasa Indonesia, we are making available a Porter stemmer for the language.”
      “The cigar maker, the lump manufacturer and the stemmer all find in this State the article just suited to their various purposes.”
      “Raisins of the third class are sent to the stemmer and a large proportion of them then go to the seeder.”
stembark
  1. The bark from the stem of a woody plant.
stemmery
  1. (US) A building in which tobacco is stemmed.
stemhead
  1. (nautical) The top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.
stemminess
  1. The state or condition of being stemmy.
stemlessness
  1. absence of a stem
stem
  1. Alternative form of steem
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I watched one bee make a bad landing, slip off, fall backwards, bounce off a branch in the stem of the flower, and land on her back on the ground.”
      “The woman leaned her head back against the large stem of the tree and took a few slow breaths.”
stem
  1. Alternative form of STEM
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I watched one bee make a bad landing, slip off, fall backwards, bounce off a branch in the stem of the flower, and land on her back on the ground.”
      “The woman leaned her head back against the large stem of the tree and took a few slow breaths.”
stemme
  1. Obsolete form of stem.
stemlet
  1. A little stem.
stemborers
  1. plural of stemborer
stemflows
  1. plural of stemflow
stemheads
  1. plural of stemhead
stembarks
  1. plural of stembark
stemmings
stemmeries
  1. plural of stemmery
stemsons
  1. plural of stemson
stemmers
  1. plural of stemmer
stemlets
  1. plural of stemlet
stemmes
  1. plural of stemme
stems
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