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stemless

American  
[stem-lis] / ˈstem lɪs /

adjective

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


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Most bromeliads have a couple of things in common: They’re stemless, usually with a rosette structure.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

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

With the stemless Liberty 3 Pro buds, you get four of each.

From The Verge • Feb. 21, 2022

Many casual drinkers are happy these days to use inexpensive goblets or even stemless glasses, which I would not seek out, though I am happy enough on occasion to drink wine from a tumbler.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 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