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Stemmed

adjective

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

(of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground. Synonyms: caulescent, cauline.

Having the stem removed.

Stem

verb

Grow out of, have roots in, originate in.

Cause to point inward.

Stop the flow of a liquid. Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch. "Stem the tide"

Remove the stem from.

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"Stemmed" Quotes from Famous Books

... dirty as it has been everywhere below," said Captain Scott, as the Blanchita stemmed the current without any difficulty, where paddling a sampan must have been a laborious occupation. "It is tolerably clear along here, and we might take our morning ...

— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic

... British generals several times mistook this silence as an indication that the Boers had evacuated the trenches, and sent forward bodies of infantry to occupy the positions. When the infantry reached the Boer zone of fire they usually met with a terrific Mauser fire that could not be stemmed, however gallant the attacks might have been. Hundreds of British soldiers lost their lives while going forward under shell fire to occupy a position which, it was presumed by the generals, was unoccupied by ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... upon which Deerfoot looked recalled many similar ones in Ohio and Kentucky. There were six warriors seated on the ground, most of the party in lolling postures, three smoking long-stemmed pipes, and all had evidently partaken of food a short time before, for a faint odor of broiling venison or bison meat was in the air, and the signs within the camp showed that a meal had been ...

— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

... straight-stemmed cocoa-palm; they all have an inclination from the perpendicular more or less; perhaps that is why a cyclone has more effect on them ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... that dinner did something afterwards to entertain me. I was often invited to the opera, always had a box (long-stemmed roses for all the ladies), also to dinner and lunches. If anyone in the city had anything in the way of a rare collection, from old engravings to rare old books, an evening was devoted to showing the collection ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

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