stem
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(verb) as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound |
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Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
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Related Words: check |
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(verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" |
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Related Words: originate in |
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(noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe |
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Related Words: tube, tubing |
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(noun) the long narrow part of something |
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Synonyms: shank |
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Related Words: cylinder |
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(noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
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Synonyms: stalk |
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Related Words: axis, beanstalk, bole, branch, bulb, cane, caudex, cladode, cladophyll, corm, culm, cutting, filament, flower stalk, funicle, funiculus, halm, haulm, leafstalk, petiole, phylloclad, phylloclade, plant organ, rhizome, rootstalk, rootstock, scape, slip, sporangiophore, stipe, stock, tree trunk, trunk, tuber |
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(noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" |
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Synonyms: bow, fore, prow |
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Related Words: front |
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(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" |
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Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme |
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Related Words: form, word form |
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