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stemless

American  
[stem-lis] / ˈstem lɪs /

adjective

  1. lacking, or appearing to lack, a stem.


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Early birds carted off their treasures, while latecomers swarmed over boxes of stemless wineglasses and waffle-knit slippers, grabbing whatever they could carry or pry from the wall.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2023

She has filled a comical ceramic vase that has human features with scavenged mountain laurel, honeysuckle, ferns and maple seedlings and laid a table with stemless goblets and speckled dishes.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2022

The Liberty 3 Pro earbuds have a stemless design.

From The Verge Feb. 21, 2022

And, of course, stemless glasses are the great equalizer when it comes to wine snobbery.

From Washington Post Jan. 21, 2022

Chiefly stemless herbs, with regular 4-merous spiked flowers, the stamens inserted on the tube of the dry and membranaceous veinless monopetalous corolla, alternate with its lobes;—chiefly represented by the two following genera.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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