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"Main Stem" is 1942 instrumental by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra. Although recorded in 1942, the single would not be released until 1944 where it was Duke Ellington's last of four number one's on the Harlem Hit Parade. "Main Stem" also peaked at number twenty on the pop chart.
Main Stem is an album by American saxophonist Oliver Nelson with trumpeter Joe Newman. It was originally released in 1962 on Prestige Records, and reissued on CD in 1992.
Usage examples of "main stem".
His guests followed him onto the balcony that overlooked the many-leveled hydroponic unit that was a deep well in the main stem of the Station.
At the junction of the flower-stalk and the main stem are a pair of very small scale-like bracts.
If a plant is not crowded, limbs will grow from small buds (located at the inter- section of petioles) along the main stem.
The principal part needing protection in the winter is the main stem, which is more tender than the young wood.
They are occasionally used for pickling, but for this purpose the smaller heads which are formed on the lateral shoots that spring in succession from the main stem, are generally preferred when about the size of a large egg.
Hooa was swung sideways, right into the waterfall, clinging to the remains of a main stem, while the rest of the mat tumbled down on the people below.
It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.
Each becomes a short stalk carrying a terminal flower, below which other flowers on smaller stalks arise - the ends of the main stem thus becoming covered with a mass of golden blossoms.
The other had then arisen and hurried back along the main stem until she had reached the face of wall into which she suddenly disappeared.
The Erb, encouraged, fastened a loop of line about her main stem and moved to the water.
Specimen Number 786, I write in my notebook, has a main stem of green cotton-covered 30-gauge millinery wire.