stem : Idioms & Phrases

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black-stem spleenwort

  • noun fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
    black-stem spleenwort; little ebony spleenwort.
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black-stemmed spleenwort

  • noun fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
    black-stem spleenwort; little ebony spleenwort.
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blue stem

  • noun tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States
    Andropogon furcatus; Andropogon gerardii; bluestem.
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brain stem

  • noun the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus
    brain stem; brainstem.
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brain-stem

  • noun the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus
    brain stem; brainstem.
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crooked-stemmed aster

  • noun a variety of aster
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cylindrical-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a cylindrical stem
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embryonic stem-cell research

  • noun biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine
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From stem to stern

  • (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.
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hematopoeitic stem cell

  • noun blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells
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leafy-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a leafy stem
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multi-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having many stems
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onion stem

  • noun a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base
    Lepiota cepaestipes.
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Polyp stem

  • (Zoöl.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
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purple-stemmed aster

  • noun a variety of aster
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rough-stemmed goldenrod

  • noun a variety of goldenrod
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short-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a short stem
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spiny-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a spiny stem
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stem blight

  • noun a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants
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stem canker

  • noun rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
    russet scab; rosette; little potato.
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stem cell

  • noun an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)
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stem ginger

  • noun tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
    Zingiber officinale; Canton ginger; common ginger.
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Stem leaf

  • (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.
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stem lettuce

  • noun lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
    celtuce; Lactuca sativa asparagina.
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stem turn

  • noun a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
    stem.
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stem vowel

  • noun a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection
    thematic vowel.
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stem-cell research

  • noun research on stem cells and their use in medicine
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stem-clasping

Stem"-clasp`ing adjective
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  1. (Bot.) Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
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stem-winder

  • noun a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem
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Stem"-wind`er noun
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  1. A stem-winding watch. Colloq. Fig. anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase "a stem-winder of a speech" or "delivered as stem-winder".
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stem-winding

Stem"-wind`ing adjective
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  1. Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
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stemming algorithm

  • noun an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
    stemmer.
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stout-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a stout stem
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thick-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a thick stem
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Valve stem

  • (Mach.), a rod attached to a valve, for moving it.
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Voluble stem

  • (Bot.), a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body.
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weak-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a weak stem
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white-stemmed filaree

  • noun low annual European herb naturalized in America; similar to alfilaria
    Erodium moschatum; muskus grass; musk clover.
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wiry-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a wiry stem
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woody-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a woody stem
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woolly-stemmed

  • adjective satellite having a woolly stem
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