Stems [noun]
Definition of Stems:
stalk of plant
Sentence/Example of Stems:
Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse.
There is one stream which I dread my inability to stem—it is the tide of Popular Opinion.
In his excitement the dominie had snapped the stem of his tobacco pipe in two.
Then one after the other the two tenders puffed away, packed from stem to stern.
And the pick was only the stem of a kau-ling plant, to which a bit of brick had been fastened.
Again, take the stem of the chief tree in Claude's Narcissus.
There are three things we've forgotten, the stem, stern-post, and keel.
It was an eggcup, and its stem had been mended with plaster.
When they are attached squarely and firmly to the stem they are said to be adnate.
The spores are white and the stem is readily separable from the cap.