Definition of stem

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Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian..

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Abstemious :: Abstemious (a.) Abstaining from wine.
Verticil :: Verticil (n.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
Regime :: Regime (n.) Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system..
Classify :: Classify (v. t.) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
Group :: Group (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes..
Pipy :: Pipy (a.) Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.
Orography :: Orography (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe..
Hood :: Hood (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
Apostume :: Apostume (n.) See Aposteme.
Bigoted :: Bigoted (a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others..
Neuropathy :: Neuropathy (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
Natural :: Natural (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1..
Immethodical :: Immethodical (a.) Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.
Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..
Radius Vector :: Radius vector () A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n..
Phyton :: Phyton (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer..
Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..
Re :: Re () A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale..
Range :: Range (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species..
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
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