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substems

Syllables: sub·stemsUK/ˈsʌb.stɛmz/

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Australia/ˈsɐb.stemz/

substems is the plural of substem.

Meaning of substem

Noun

substem (plural substems)

  1. One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
  2. Part of a stem.
    • Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information:[…]2007, chapter 28.3, in Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 737

Questions about substems

What is substems the plural of?
Substems is the plural of substem.
How do you pronounce substems?
Substems is pronounced /ˈsʌb.stɛmz/ (UK).

Words near substems in the dictionary

  1. substaunce
  2. substaunces
  3. substellar
  4. substellate
  5. substem
  6. substems
  7. substep
  8. substeps
  9. substernal
  10. substernally
  11. substile

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