It is used for the long, usually thin, part of a thing: the stem of a flower the stem of a pipe (for smoking) the stem of a wine glass It can be the main part of a word to which other parts are added (sometimes called a root). a- spira- tion (spira is the stem) It can be a verb used with the preposition "from" showing the origins or causes: "His bad health stems from years of overeating and smoking." It can mean to make progress against something and is common in "to stem the tide." "stem the tide of illegal immigration" ...just to name a few... : )

Stem is a part of the plant emerging from the roots. A stem is usually above ground and provides support to the plants. Or basically a thing that gives support to an object.

Plant stem, the above ground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers Also see similar: Stipe (botany) Stipe (mycology) The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade. Word stem, the base part of a word not including inflectional morphemes Stem (bicycle part), connects the handlebars to the steer tube of a bicycle fork Stem (music), a part of a written musical note Crack stem, a device for smoking crack cocaine Stem (REXX language), part of a compound variable in the REXX computer programming language Stem (ship), the upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached Stem (skiing) is a technique in skiing "Stem", a song by Canadian musician Hayden from his 1995 album Everything I Long For The Stems, an Australian garage rock/power pop group from the 1980s Watch stem STEM may refer to: Scanning transmission electron microscopy STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study cowboy...

The stem is the long green thing a flower grows on.