stem

中文： 茎、树干、词干、符杆

1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. A branch of a family.
3. A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
4. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
5. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
6. 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
7. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
8. 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.

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