| 单词 | stem |
| 释义 | stem (once / 241 pages) 1nv 2n 3nv 4n 5v 6v Sometimes stem means to originate; other times it means to stop something at its source. You stem the flow of a river, but you can also observe that a river’s flow stems from a spring. To remember stem’s meaning think of the stem of a plant––it’s where a plant begins but also where you pluck it from the ground. Once teachers realized that the students’ anger stemmed from the overload of homework, they stemmed the rebellion’s tide. WORD FAMILYstem: stemless, stemmed, stemmer, stemming, stems+/stemmed: multi-stemmed/stemmer: stemmers USAGE EXAMPLESIn time Roosevelt was able to stem the economic bloodbath, but only to be confronted by the Nazi menace overrunning Europe. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) A news release from his office says the projects stem from the Continuum of Care program. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Ten involved some kind of robbery and at least two stemmed from road-rage incidents. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n cylinder forming a long narrow part of something Syn|Hyper shank cylinder a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line 2n a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ Syn|Hypo|Hyper stalk gynophore the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle carpophorea slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel corn stalk, cornstalkthe stalk of a corn plant filamentthe stalk of a stamen funicle, funiculusthe stalk of a plant ovule or seed petiolulethe stalk of a leaflet canea strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane sporangiophorestalk bearing one or more sporangia cutting, slipa part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting tubera fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage rhizome, rootstalk, rootstocka horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure axisthe main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged caudexwoody stem of palms and tree ferns beanstalkstem of a bean plant cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phyllocladea flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf caudex, stockpersistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant stipesupporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap flower stalk, scapeerect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip leafstalk, petiolethe slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf bulba modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure cormsolid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure brancha division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant culmstem of plants of the Gramineae halm, haulmstems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding bole, tree trunk, trunkthe main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber water chestnutedible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant groundnut, potato bean, wild beannutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans Jerusalem artichokeedible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke yamedible tuber of any of several yams sugar cane, sugarcanejuicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice rattan, rattan canethe stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes malaccastem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles onionthe bulb of an onion plant shallotaggregate bulb of the multiplier onion squillbulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant quicksetcuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines rachisaxis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence phyllodean expanded petiole taking on the function of a leaf blade pedunclestalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower spadixthe fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe bulbil, bulbletsmall bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers deadwooda branch or a part of a tree that is dead limb, tree branchany of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree branchlet, sprig, twiga small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year plant organ a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus 3n the tube of a tobacco pipe Hyper tube, tubing conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases 4v remove the stem from 2for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract n (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed 3thematic vowels are part of the stem Syn|Hyper base, radical, root, root word, theme descriptor, form, signifier, word form the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something 1n a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it Syn|Hyper stem turn turn, turning the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course 2v cause to point inward 4stem your skis Hyper orient cause to point n front part of a vessel or aircraft 5Syn|Hyper bow, fore, prow front the side that is seen or that goes first v grow out of, have roots in, originate in 6The increase in the national debt stems from the last war Hyper originate in come from v stop the flow of a liquid stem the tide Syn|Hyper halt, stanch, staunch check arrest the motion (of something) abruptly |
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