13 Metaphors for stemming

The stems are usually three-fourths of an inch in diameter.

The stem was about a foot in diameter.

Everything, indeed, is possible with God; but that this half-stunted tree which is scarcely eighteen feet high, and whose wretched stem is at most only nine inches in diameter, is full 3,000 years old, appears to me rather too improbable!

The stem is a plate at the base, to which these fleshy scales are attached.

The aërial foliage stem is the most favorable for studying stem structure.

Its stem is from thirty to forty feet high, cylindrical and dark-brown, with white rings a quarter of an inch broad at distances of four inches, and, at similar intervals, crown-shaped bands of thorns two inches long.

Other bell-flowers, as the hemerocallis and amaryllis, have their bells nodding only, as it were, or hanging obliquely toward the horizon; which, as their stems are slender, turn like a weathercock from the wind; and thus very effectually preserve their inclosed stamens and anthers from the rain and cold.

By the spring the stem will be woody.

It should be made perfectly clear that the stem is the axis of the plant, that is, it bears all the other organs.

A very nice ride, cool, and through a succession of crops of millet; a stiff, reedy stem, some twelve or fourteen feet high, with a tuft on the top, is the physiognomy of the millet stalk.

The stem is the grand distributor of the nourishment taken up by the roots, to the several parts of the plant.

I always thought a stem was a stem, whatever it carried," said Roger.

The lifted stem and Christiania are the best turns on hard snow.

13 Metaphors for  stemming