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▪ I. stemmed, a.|stɛmd| [f. stem n.1 + -ed2.] Having a stem or stems.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. i. viii. 62 Sondry Plantes and great stemmed hearbes. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 151 Tulips tall-stemm'd..rise. 1897A. Hartshorne Old Engl. Glasses 271 The opaque-twisted stemmed glasses. ▪ II. stemmed, ppl. a.|stɛmd| [f. stem v.4 + -ed1.] Of tobacco leaf: Stripped of its stem.
1844Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid. 234 As stemmed tobacco is only used for this country, if, [etc.]. 1883Killebrew Rep. Tobacco U.S. 19 The larger consumption was of strips or stemmed tobacco.
Add:b. Of small fruit: having had the stem removed.
1961in Webster s.v., Stemmed berries. 1979Cunningham & Laber Fannie Farmer Cookbook 658 Uses [for currants]: Raw, stemmed and generously sugared... Cooked,..in jellies. 1984J. Didion Democracy i. vii. 35 People who all knew exactly what Inez Victor did with the stemmed strawberries she picked up at Gristede's. |