Definition of stem

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Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

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Dichotomous :: Dichotomous (a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem..
Hood :: Hood (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
Distemperment :: Distemperment (n.) Distempered state; distemperature.
Materiel :: Materiel (n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers..
Acrita :: Acrita (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed..
Shoring :: Shoring (n.) A system of props; props, collectively..
Nudicaul :: Nudicaul (a.) Having the stems leafless.
Ptolemaist :: Ptolemaist (n.) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
Rationalism :: Rationalism (n.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation..
Tubularia :: Tubularia (n.) A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles..
Crystallography :: Crystallography (n.) The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation..
Solid :: Solid (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem..
Rape :: Rape (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Internuncial :: Internuncial (a.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.
Rationalism :: Rationalism (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism..
Lacasterian :: Lacasterian (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them..
Stockwork :: Stockwork (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories..
Pseudo-heart :: Pseudo-heart (n.) Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system..
Trabeculate :: Trabeculate (a.) Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem..
Blastemal :: Blastemal (a.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
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