short-stemmed

1. 1.

   having a short stem

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Questions about short-stemmed

What does short-stemmed mean?

short-stemmed means "having a short stem".

How many syllables are in short-stemmed?

short-stemmed has 2 syllables: short--stemmed. The stress falls on "short-".

Is short-stemmed a common word?

short-stemmed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.