a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) | a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge | front part of a vessel or aircraft |
an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed |
| a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |