stem
茎,干,茎部,茎干
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Definitions
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- : the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- : the stalk that supports a leaf, flower, or fruit.
- : the main body of that portion of a tree, shrub, or other plant which is above ground; trunk; stalk.
- : a cut flower: We bought roses at the flower market for 50¢ a stem.
- : a petiole; peduncle; pedicel.
- : a stalk of bananas.
- : something resembling or suggesting a leaf or flower stalk.
- : a long, slender part: the stem of a tobacco pipe.
- : the slender, vertical part of a goblet, wineglass, etc., between the bowl and the base.
- : Informal. a drinking glass having a stem.
- : the handle of a spoon.
- : a projection from the rim of a watch, having on its end a knob for winding the watch.
- : the circular rod in some locks about which the key fits and rotates.
- : the rod or spindle by which a valve is operated from outside.
- : the stock or line of descent of a family; ancestry or pedigree.
- : Grammar. the underlying form, often consisting of a root plus an affix, to which the inflectional endings of a word are added, as tend-, the stem in Latin tendere “to stretch,” the root of which is ten-.Compare base, theme.
- : Music. the vertical line forming part of a note.
- : stems, Slang. the legs of a human being.
- : the main or relatively thick stroke of a letter in printing.
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stemmed, stem·ming.
- : to remove the stem from: Stem the cherries before cooking.
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stemmed, stem·ming.
- : to arise or originate: This project stems from last week's lecture.
Phrases
- stem the tide
- stem to stern
- from soup to nuts (stem to stern)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
By March, regulators were desperately trying to stem the tide of price gouging flooding online retailers, especially Amazon's sprawling third-party Marketplace.
The pause stemmed from a standard review of the company’s vaccine trials after one person developed an unexplained illness, AstraZeneca said in a statement.
The commission recommends more research on using stem cells to produce eggs and sperm in lab dishes, which could then be used to create embryos that don’t carry genetic diseases.
Julia Gaydina, co-founder of sustainable luxury clothing brand Infantium Victoria He spent the next 18 months trying to understand how to extract the calotropis gigantea fiber from its stem and pod without using any chemicals.
In 2019, approximately $919 million of craft distiller revenues stemmed from on-site sales.
Republican legislatures are looking for any way to stem the tide, and religious exemptions are one way to do that.
The researchers first isolated a set of cells known as neural stem cells (NSCs) from the brains of rats.
In part, it may stem from what looks like an increasingly “political” Court.
Seager writes about being threatened by a patient with a shank carved out of an eyeglass stem.
Anti-vaxxers and anti-stem cell-ers come together, thanks to a recent paper linking autism to vaccines that use stem cells.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.
As he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.
A mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.
The Chukchees use a pipe similar to those of the Eskimo, but with a much larger and shorter stem.