substem

sub·stem
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Canada, US, UK, Scotland/ˈsʌb.stɛm/Canada, US, UK, Scotland, also/ˈsʌb.stem/Australia, New Zealand/ˈsɐb.stem/India/ˈsəb.sʈɛ(ː)m/

noun

One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.

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Meanings

nounsubstem (plural substems)

plural substems

  1. biologyOne of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
  2. human sciencesPart 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

Origin

From sub- + stem.

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APA

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MLA

“substem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substem. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “substem,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substem.

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