Alternative form of STEM

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

present participle of stem

(nautical) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current. / A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.

(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

(cytology) An essential characteristic of a stem cell that distinguishes it from ordinary cells

(linguistics) A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /a/.

plural of stemming