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Definition of Stemmed

1. Adjective. Having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination. "Long-stemmed roses"

2. Adjective. (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground.

3. Adjective. Having the stem removed. "Stemmed berries"

Definition of Stemmed

1. Adjective. Having a stem. ¹

2. Verb. (past of stem) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stemmed

1. stem [v] - See also: stem

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stemmed

stemless daisy stemless golden weed stemless hymenoxys stemlet stemlets stemlike stemline stemlines stemma stemmas

stemmata stemmatic stemmatics stemmatology stemme stemmed (current term) stemmer stemmeries stemmers stemmery

stemmes stemmier stemmiest stemminess stemming stemming algorithm stemmings stemmy stemness stempel

Literary usage of Stemmed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The sporophytes are solid-stemmed, usually producing large spore-bearing leaves, and well developed roots. There are fully 3500 species of ferns, ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"All other tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured, and not stemmed, thirty-five cents per pound. Tobacco, manufactured, of all descriptions, and stemmed tobacco, ..."

3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"anterior sides even in slender-stemmed species, as B. undulata and incarnata, although in these cases the leaves are not approximated on the anterior side, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The term "church-warden" is also given to a long- stemmed clay tobacco-pipe formerly much used in Great Britain. A famous "make" of this class of pipes is ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... so that the nest resembles an inverted short-stemmed wine-glass. The grubs hatch from the egg laid in each cell as soon as it is finished, and the cells ..."

6. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"C. WOODY stemmed ... a number of secondary structures and variations of detail that differentiate them in a marked degree from soft- stemmed annuals. ..."

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