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Adjective stemmed has 3 senses
  1. stemmed - having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination; "stemmed goblets"; "long-stemmed roses"
    Antonyms:     stemless, stemmed
  2. caulescent, cauline, stemmed - producing a well-developed stem above ground
  3. stemmed - having the stem removed; "stemmed berries"
    Antonym:     stemmed (indirect, via stemless)
,Verb stem has 4 senses
  1. stem - grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"
    --1 is one way to     originate in
    Derived form: noun stem1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  2. stem - cause to point inward; "stem your skis"
    --2 is one way to     orient
    Derived form: noun stem6
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. stem, stanch, staunch, halt - stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
    --3 is one way to check
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  4. stem - remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
    --4 is one way to     remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Derived forms: noun stemmer3, noun stem1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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