stemless
Lacking a stem, either naturally or because it has been removed.
Adjective
- Lacking a stem, either naturally or because it has been removed.
- If long-stemmed roses are so popular, are stemless roses cheap?
- The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition. - 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and...
Origin
Etymology tree English stem Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English stemless From stem + -less.