Stems is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STEMS in dictionary:

VERB:
• STEM, to deprive a plant of a leaf-bearing axis
• originate in or be caused by
• remove the stems from (fruit or tobacco leaves)
• (of a boat) make headway against (the tide or current)
• stop or restrict (the flow of something)
• stop the spread or development of (something undesirable)
• slide the tail of one ski or both skis outwards in order to turn or slow down
RESIDUAL:
• science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (as an educational category)
NOUN:
• the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean.
• the stalk supporting a fruit, flower, or leaf, and attaching it to a larger branch, twig, or stalk.
• a long, thin supportive or main section of something
• the slender part of a wine glass between the base and the bowl
• the tube of a tobacco pipe
• a rod or cylinder in a mechanism, for example the sliding shaft of a bolt or the winding pin of a watch
• a vertical stroke in a letter or musical note.
• the root or main part of a word, to which inflections or formative elements are added.
• the main line of descent of a family or nation
• a pipe used for smoking crack or opium.
• the main upright timber or metal piece at the bow of a ship, to which the ship's sides are joined at the front end
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove stems (ascending axes of a plant) from

Words related to STEMS

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How to use STEMS in a sentence

• Again, some of the coal is made up of the crushed and flattened bark, or outer coat, of the stems of plants, the inner wood of which has completely decayed away.
• On warm hill-sides its stems are ripe by the twenty-third of August.
• They have very long underground stems, which go through and through the dry, loose sand.
• The willows were short, slender poles with stems so close together that they almost touched, and with the leafy foliage forming a thick covering.
• The most remarkable things in this garden are two vine- stocks, whose stems were each a foot in diameter.
• Ordinarily, however, it is sought for by splitting open those bamboo stems which give a rattling sound when shaken.
• In any but the younger stems, the bark is composed of an inner, live layer, and an outer or dead portion.
• When the plants appear, hoe the ground between, draw a little fine earth to the stems, and leave the rest to Nature.
• The natives take them by springs fastened to the stems.
• More than 100 stems have been produced by one plant, but under conditions the most favorable.
• Much care is necessary when it is being cured to prevent loss in the leaves, and when cured the stems are so brittle that it is difficult to prevent waste in handling the hay.
• The bright, shimmering stems of twenty batteries, each of five stamps, were marking time before their eyes like, a row of steel soldiers.
• Payne went ahead at first, walking sidewise, throwing his shoulder against the brittle stems and crashing a path through.
• Lovely flowers grew in luxuriance, and, lest people should pass the most beautiful without noticing them, peals of silver bells were tied to their stems.
• Draw the design upon the satin, and work in embroidery-stitch, the leaves with the shades of green, the stems with the shades of olive, and the grapes with the beads.
• They should have fine round heads of foliage, clean stems, and no weeds or underwood below, nor a single dead branch above.
• It has sixty stems, or dropped branches that have taken root.
• A tall column or two surmounted with graceful garden-vases were covered about with raspberry-vines, the stems of brilliant scarlet showing among the green.
• Big boughs or the stems of small trees were placed together in the form of an A with the ends resting on the ground.
• The long stems twined round the gable, on which there hung a small bell.
• It was so cool and sweet that she held it there a moment before she slipped out of bed and ran across the room to thrust the long stems into the water pitcher.
• Look over, and then put stems and all in a porcelain-lined kettle.

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