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You noticed their big floppy hats, which, with their skinny stemlike bodies, gave them the aspect of decorative flowers.

Beard 2010

It was grueling work for the collectors: twelve hours a day scouring the hillsides for the slim, 2-centimeter stemlike protuberance that is all of the fruit that sticks out of the earth.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

It was grueling work for the collectors: twelve hours a day scouring the hillsides for the slim, 2-centimeter stemlike protuberance that is all of the fruit that sticks out of the earth.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

It was grueling work for the collectors: twelve hours a day scouring the hillsides for the slim, 2-centimeter stemlike protuberance that is all of the fruit that sticks out of the earth.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

These fresh insights, in turn, have led to the discovery of similar hierarchies among cancer cells within a tumor, providing strong support for the theory that rogue stemlike cells are at the root of many cancers.

Rogue Stem Cells at the Root of Cancer? | Impact Lab 2006

In a small box, there were three of these wooden cookie molds, each one nearly completely different in shape and design except for its long, stemlike handle.

My Cooking Gadget Antiques Blogshow 2007

Her stemlike legs were enveloped in sheer black tights topped by hip-hugger bikini briefs — an outfit purchased at the ultra-mod boutique Paraphernalia.

A Night to Remember Collins, Amy Fine 1996

At slightly after six Abrahm Kantor returned, leading by a resisting wrist Leon Kantor, his stemlike little legs, hit midship, as it were, by not sufficiently cut-down trousers and so narrow and birdlike of face that his eyes quite obliterated the remaining map of his features, like those of a still wet nestling.

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

He stood there while a laugh covered his features, and he put his hand in his pocket and drew out a key-ring, which he waved, holding it by some long, stemlike instrument.

In Our Town William Allen White 1906

As he dropped his head on one side, it looked too heavy for the stemlike neck, but it conveyed an impression of immense intellectual power.

The Second Deluge 1890