The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. / A branch of a family. / An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

To remove the stem from. / To be caused or derived; to originate. / To descend in a family line. / To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). / (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.

Alternative form of steem

Alternative form of STEM

A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.

(nautical, obsolete, of ships) Side by side so that both ships’ prows or stems are even with one another, abreast.

(countable) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope. / (uncountable) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

Having a stem.

simple past tense and past participle of stem