Definition of stem

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Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

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Garget :: Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite..
Crinoidea :: Crinoidea (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula..
Stem-winding :: Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.
Atropism :: Atropism (n.) A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.
Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..
Rationalism :: Rationalism (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism..
Myotome :: Myotome (n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.
Muscoid :: Muscoid (n.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system..
Deca- :: Deca- () A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit..
Propaganda :: Propaganda (n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles..
Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system..
Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..
Theologize :: Theologize (v. t.) To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.
Systemizing :: Systemized (imp. & p. p.) of Systemiz.
Plethora :: Plethora (n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia..
Compages :: Compages (v. t.) A system or structure of many parts united.
Harlech Group :: Harlech group () A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.
Visceroskeletal :: Visceroskeletal (a.) Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles..
Malpighiaceous :: Malpighiaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests..
Gargil :: Gargil (n.) A distemper in geese, affecting the head..
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