The Clue
Flower support (4 letter answer)
The Answer
STEM
Tags
Notes
The answer STEM is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
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Arise
Arise from
Arrest
Caudex
Check
Contain
Emanate
Halt
Originate (from)
Petiole
Retard
Stanch
From ___ to stern
The brain has one
Caudex, in botany
Cherry part
Flower part
Flower stalk
Flute part
Forward part
Goblet feature
Goblet part
Hold back
Kind of cell
Leaf holder
Leaf support
Part of a rose
Part of a watch
Pipe part
Plant part
Prow of a ship
Rose part
Ship's prow
Shut off
Stern's opposite
Stop up
Watch part
Wineglass feature
Main part of a word
Type of ski turn
Part of many musical notes
Definition
STEM as a noun:
1. (root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical) = (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
2. (stalk, stem) = a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
3. (shank, stem) = cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
4. the tube of a tobacco pipe
5. (bow, fore, prow, stem) = front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
6. (stem turn, stem) = a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
STEM as a verb:
1. grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
2. cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
3. (stem, stanch, staunch, halt) = stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
4. remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"