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Plural of stem

regular plural

The plural of stem is stems.

Forms of stem

Singularstem /stɛm/
Pluralstems
Countablecountable

Stems in a sentence

  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
  • A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
  • The long-stemmed roses didn't fit in the short vase because the stems were too long.From the entry stemmed
  • Democracy’s legitimacy stems from the consent of the governed.From the entry legitimacy
  • The development of plutophobia typically stems from a complex interplay of psychological, social, and experiential factors.2024 December 10, “What Is Plutophobia? Understanding the Fear of Wealth”, in Asana Recovery, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2025. From the entry plutophobia

Meaning of stem

  1. noun The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  2. noun A branch of a family.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of stem

Questions about the plural of stem

What is the plural of stem?
The plural of stem is stems.
Is stem countable?
Stem is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stem (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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