Substem

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
  2. 2
    Part of a stem.

    "Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information […]"

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"Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information […]"

Etymology

From sub- + stem.

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