[n] a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
[n] front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
[n] the tube of a tobacco pipe
[n] cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
[n] (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
[n] a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
[v] as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound
[v] grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
Synonyms
base, bow, fore, halt, prow, radical, root, root word, shank, stalk, stanch, staunch, stem turn, theme