The difference between Stem and Virgula
When used as nouns, stem means the stock of a family, whereas virgula means a small, thin, straight growth, particularly: the spines of a ray. the sicula of a graptolite.
Stem is also verb with the meaning: to remove the stem from.
check bellow for the other definitions of Stem and Virgula
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Stem as a noun:
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
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Stem as a noun:
A branch of a family.
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Stem as a noun:
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
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Stem as a noun (botany):
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
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Stem as a noun:
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
Examples:
"the stem of an apple or a cherry"
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Stem as a noun:
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
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Stem as a noun (linguistics):
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
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Stem as a noun (slang):
A person's leg.
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Stem as a noun (typography):
A vertical stroke of a letter.
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Stem as a noun (music):
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
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Stem as a noun (nautical):
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
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Stem as a noun:
Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
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Stem as a noun (anatomy):
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
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Stem as a noun (slang):
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
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Stem as a noun (chiefly British):
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
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Stem as a verb:
To remove the stem from.
Examples:
"to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves"
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Stem as a verb:
To be caused or derived; to originate.
Examples:
"The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government."
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Stem as a verb:
To descend in a family line.
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Stem as a verb:
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
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Stem as a verb (obsolete):
To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
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Stem as a verb:
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
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Stem as a verb (transitive):
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
Examples:
"to stem a tide"
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Stem as a verb (skiing):
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
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Stem as a noun:
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Stem as a noun:
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Virgula as a noun (zoology):
A small, thin, straight growth, particularly: The spines of a ray. The sicula of a graptolite.
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Virgula as a noun (obsolete):
A divining or dowsing rod.
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Virgula as a noun (rare):
Any small rod.
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Virgula as a noun (typography, rare):
a punctuation mark.
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Virgula as a noun (music, obsolete):
the tail of a note.
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Virgula as a noun (music, historical, obsolete):
one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.