(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

the tube of a tobacco pipe

front part of a vessel or aircraft

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

grow out of, have roots in, originate in

cause to point inward

stop the flow of a liquid

remove the stem from

a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants

rhizoctinia disease of potatoes

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

tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

lettuce valued especially for its edible stems

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

a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection

research on stem cells and their use in medicine

a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem

not having a stem

(of plants) having no apparent stem above ground

stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath; of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe

dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona

dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus

perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America

a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work

the descendants of one individual

an eye having a single lens

of or relating to a textual stemma

the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)

the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)

having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination

(of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground

having the stem removed

a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem