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Having a short stem.

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Usage examples (27)
  • Many of the dancers carried short-stemmed pipes with fat wooden bowls.
  • He eyed Duncan knowingly as his long tongue lapped liquor from a wide-mouthed, short-stemmed glass.
  • As a last touch, a cluster of short-stemmed American Beauties nestled against the low-cut bodice of the gown.
  • Either a short-stemmed erect plant or a threemeter twining short-lived perennial, the rice bean is grown as annual.
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