stem turn stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
bow fore prow stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
brainstem brain-stem brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
stem vowel thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
celtuce stem lettuce Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
bluestem blue stem Andropogon furcatus Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
common ginger Canton ginger stem ginger Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger |
onion stem Lepiota cepaestipes | a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base |
stalk stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
black-stem spleenwort black-stemmed spleenwort little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil |
stem blight | a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
little potato rosette russet scab stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
stem | remove the stem from, for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed |
stem stanch staunch halt | stop the flow of a liquid, staunch the blood flow, stem the tide |
stem | grow out of, have roots in, originate in, The increase in the national debt stems from the last war |
stem | cause to point inward, stem your skis |