Word Meanings - STEM-CLASPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

Related words: (words related to STEM-CLASPING)

• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• AMPLEXICAUL
  Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.
• PETIOLED
  Petiolate.
• PETIOLE
  A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• EMBRACER
  One who embraces.
• EMBRACEMENT
  1. A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney. 2. State of being contained; inclosure. In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon. 3. Willing acceptance. A ready embracement of . . . his
• SEMIAMPLEXICAUL
  Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.
• REEMBRACE
  To embrace again.