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Defenition of the word stem

    • Defenition of the word stem

      • front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
      • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
      • the long narrow part of something
      • a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
      • the tube of a tobacco pipe
      • grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
      • as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound
      • a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
      • cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
      • remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
      • stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
      • cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
      • front part of a vessel or aircraft
      • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
      • remove the stem from
      • stop the flow of a liquid
      • grow out of, have roots in, originate in
      • cause to point inward

    Synonyms for the word stem

      • base
      • bow
      • fore
      • halt
      • prow
      • radical
      • root
      • root word
      • shank
      • stalk
      • stanch
      • staunch
      • theme

    Meronymys for the word stem

      • anchor
      • grip
      • ground tackle
      • handgrip
      • handle
      • hold
      • key
      • nail
      • pin
      • pipe
      • receptacle
      • tobacco pipe
      • vessel
      • watercraft
      • wineglass

    Hyponyms for the word stem

      • axis
      • beanstalk
      • bole
      • branch
      • bulb
      • cane
      • carpophore
      • caudex
      • cladode
      • cladophyll
      • corm
      • corn stalk
      • cornstalk
      • culm
      • cutting
      • filament
      • flower stalk
      • funicle
      • funiculus
      • gynophore
      • halm
      • haulm
      • leafstalk
      • petiole
      • petiolule
      • phylloclad
      • phylloclade
      • rhizome
      • rootstalk
      • rootstock
      • scape
      • slip
      • sporangiophore
      • stipe
      • stock
      • tree trunk
      • trunk
      • tuber

    Hypernyms for the word stem

      • check
      • cylinder
      • descriptor
      • form
      • front
      • orient
      • originate in
      • plant organ
      • remove
      • signifier
      • take
      • take away
      • tube
      • tubing
      • turn
      • turning
      • withdraw
      • word form

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