substem

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ stem

Noun

substem (plural substems)

  1. (botany) One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
  2. (linguistics) Part of a stem.
    • 2007, Dirk Geeraerts; H. Cuyckens, The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics:
      Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information […]

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