stem meaning
EN
[stɛm] [-ɛm] 
US WStem
- Stem may refer to:
- Science
- Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers
- Stipe (botany)
- Stipe (mycology)
- Stem cell
- STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study
- The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade
- Word stem, the base part of a word not including inflectional morphemes
- Music and audio production
EN STEM 
- NounPLstems
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- A branch of a family.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- the stem of an apple or a cherry
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- (music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
- (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of steem.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- VerbSGstemsPRstemmingPT, PPstemmed
- To remove the stem from.
- to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- to stem a tide
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To remove the stem from.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "you guys wasn't gettin' paid to leave the dogs to babysit the sheep while you stemmed the rose", from Brokeback Mountain.
- Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
- A previous report [36 ] showed that a subpopulation of human ADCs exhibited stem cell-like characteristics and an ability to differentiate into various cell types in tridermic layer.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Stem abbreviated, terete-cylindric, to 1 cm long, monophyllous, completely concealed by papyraceous, subancipitous, acute sheaths to 1 cm long.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Flowers destitute of ray; leaves pinnatised, toothed, half-embracing the stem.
- We recorded plant associated ecto- and endophagous herbivores, their natural enemies and pollinators on and in each aboveground plant organ, i.e. flowers, fruits, leaves and stems.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stem in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "stem" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.