"stem" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3-4 inches (8-10cm), cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds.
- About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.
- The ship sank quite picturesquely, bow first, the stem rising high out of the water whilst the hull shot down perpendicularly to the bottom of the sea.
- Slowly, inch by inch, a single thorny stem, an unnaturally straight and rather thick one, was rising through the upper branches.
- The stem to which he clung had diminished to a bare five foot diameter, but rose on toward the green upper forest.
- It starts blossoming after its stem rises 40 to 50 cm above the support.
- The narrow stem of the dark plume rises vertically nearly five miles into the thin nitrogen-methane atmosphere.
- The stem is usually unbranched and rises from a basal rosette.
- From the centre of the basin rises an octagonal stem on a cruciform base with the statue of a marine god at each corner.
- From large reddish rhizomatous roots rises a striated, hollow stem with bristly hairs.
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