Definition of stem

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Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..

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Visceroskeletal :: Visceroskeletal (a.) Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles..
Philanthropinism :: Philanthropinism (n.) A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
Node :: Node (n.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted..
Stemple :: Stemmy (a.) Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc..
Apostemate :: Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Panel :: Panel (n.) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal..
Trabeculate :: Trabeculate (a.) Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem..
Systemless :: Systemless (a.) Being without system.
Shintiism :: Shintiism (n.) One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes..
Sepsis :: Sepsis (n.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
Down :: Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets..
Myria- :: Myria- () A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter..
Pestalozzian :: Pestalozzian (a.) Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher..
Plexus :: Plexus (n.) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
Simple :: Simple (a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf..
Systematize :: Systematizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Systematiz.
Universal :: Universal (n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
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