substem en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsəb.sʈɛ(ː)m/ (India)
- (Southern-England) audio
- sŭb′stĕm
- /ˈsɐb.stem/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈsʌb.stɛm/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
- /ˈsʌb.stem/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland, also)
Etymology
From sub- + stem.
Meanings
- One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
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Part of a stem.
Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information:[…]
2007, chapter 28.3, in Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 737:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| substems | Number=Plur | lexicographic |