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noun
- a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf
- (botany) A flattened organ arising from the stem of a plant, often replacing the leaves in photosynthetic function, as leaves in such plants (such as asparagus or butcher's broom) are typically reduced to scales.
- A generally flattened shoot as of certain cactuses.
noun
adj
noun
- the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf
- (botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
- (entomology, insect anatomy) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
- (entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
noun
- (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
- (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.
- (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.
- (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
- (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.
- the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus
noun
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- A container.
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
noun
verb
noun
- A small collar of inner petals or leaf-like extensions to the stem.
- A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
- The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
- (advertising) An advertising card fitted around the neck of a bottle.
- A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
- The rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
noun
adj
noun
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- The stem or main axis of a plant.
- the act of following prey stealthily
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a stiff or threatening gait
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- (slang) The penis.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- A haughty style of walking.
verb
- walk stiffly
- go through (an area) in search of prey
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
noun
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
verb
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
adj
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
adv
prep
verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
noun
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- The trunk of a tree.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
adj
verb
noun
- (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
- (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
- (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
- a seam used in surgery
- an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
- thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
verb
adj
verb
- (transitive) To rarefy.
- (transitive) To weaken.
- (brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- (intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- (transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- (transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
- become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
adj
noun
noun
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
noun
noun
- a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf
- (botany) A flattened organ arising from the stem of a plant, often replacing the leaves in photosynthetic function, as leaves in such plants (such as asparagus or butcher's broom) are typically reduced to scales.
- A generally flattened shoot as of certain cactuses.
noun
adj
noun
- the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf
- (botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
- (entomology, insect anatomy) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
- (entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
noun
- (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
- (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.
- (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.
- (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
- (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.
- the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus
noun
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- A container.
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
noun
verb
noun
- A small collar of inner petals or leaf-like extensions to the stem.
- A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
- The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
- (advertising) An advertising card fitted around the neck of a bottle.
- A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
- The rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
noun
adj
noun
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- The stem or main axis of a plant.
- the act of following prey stealthily
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a stiff or threatening gait
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- (slang) The penis.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- A haughty style of walking.
verb
- walk stiffly
- go through (an area) in search of prey
- follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
noun
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
verb
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
noun
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- The trunk of a tree.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
noun
- (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
- (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
- (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
- a seam used in surgery
- an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
- thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
verb
noun
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
adj
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
adv
prep
adj
verb
noun
adj
adj
verb
- (transitive) To rarefy.
- (transitive) To weaken.
- (brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- (intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- (transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- (transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
- become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
adj
noun
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.