| agrostemma | (n) a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles, Syn. genus Agrostemma |
| crooked-stemmed aster | (n) a variety of aster |
| cylindrical-stemmed | (adj) having a cylindrical stem |
| leafy-stemmed | (adj) having a leafy stem |
| multi-stemmed | (adj) having many stems |
| purple-stemmed aster | (n) a variety of aster |
| rough-stemmed goldenrod | (n) a variety of goldenrod |
| sarcostemma | (n) succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia, Syn. genus Sarcostemma |
| short-stemmed | (adj) having a short stem |
| spiny-stemmed | (adj) having a spiny stem |
| stemma | (n) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work |
| stemmatic | (adj) of or relating to a textual stemma |
| stemmatology | (n) 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), Syn. stemmatics |
| stemmer | (n) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers |
| stemmer | (n) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem, Syn. stemming algorithm |
| stemmer | (n) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
| stemmer | (n) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) |
| stout-stemmed | (adj) having a stout stem |
| thick-stemmed | (adj) having a thick stem |
| weak-stemmed | (adj) having a weak stem |
| wiry-stemmed | (adj) having a wiry stem |
| woody-stemmed | (adj) having a woody stem |
| woolly-stemmed | (adj) having a woolly stem |
| black-stem spleenwort | (n) fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil, Syn. black-stemmed spleenwort, little ebony spleenwort |
| caulescent | (adj) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground, Syn. stemmed, cauline, Ant. acaulescent |
| corn cockle | (n) European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America, Syn. corn campion, crown-of-the-field, Agrostemma githago |
| hardstem bulrush | (n) widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems, Syn. Scirpus acutus, hardstemmed bulrush |
| lineage | (n) the descendants of one individual, Syn. stemma, blood, parentage, bloodline, origin, blood line, descent, pedigree, ancestry, line of descent, line, stock |
| musk clover | (n) low annual European herb naturalized in America; similar to alfilaria, Syn. Erodium moschatum, white-stemmed filaree, muskus grass |
| simple eye | (n) an eye having a single lens, Syn. stemma, ocellus |
| soma | (n) leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink, Syn. Sarcostemma acidum, haoma |
| stripper | (n) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books, Syn. sprigger, stemmer |
| Agrostemma | n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the corncockles.
Syn. -- genus Agrostemma. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Stemma | ‖n.; pl. Stemmata [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, a garland or chaplet. ] (Zool.) (a) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. (b) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Stemmer | n. One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs). [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Stemmery | n. A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Stemmy | a. Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
