substem

noun — 2 senses

substem

noun

CA, US, UK, SC /ˈsʌb.stɛm/ · AU, NZ /ˈsɐb.stem/

Etymology From sub- + stem.

1

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.

2

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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:

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