stemmed

English

Adjective

stemmed (comparative more stemmed, superlative most stemmed)

1. Having a stem.

   The long-stemmed roses didn't fit in the short vase because the stems were too long.

   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:

     a large brown-stemmed silver-bowled pipe

Derived terms

• longstemmed
• multistemmed
• nonstemmed
• unstemmed

Derived terms

• leafy-stemmed
• many-stemmed

Verb

stemmed

1. simple past and past participle of stem