What is "stemlike"

Usage examples of "stemlike".

To her left one had tipped slightly where its short, stemlike landing gear had given way.

From the back, the narrowness of her shoulders, the almost stemlike quality of her waist, and the rounded flare of her hips were evident.

Here and there were tiny blossoms of flame sprouting forth from the interstices of huge clods, and at intervals he could see lopped, stemlike formations, the lower stories of sky-scrapers from which the tops had been sheared by the swish of a thermonuclear scythe.

Here and there were tiny blossoms of flame sprouting forth from the interstices of huge clods, and at intervals he could see lopped, stemlike formations, the lower stories of skyscrapers from which the tops had been sheared by the swish of a thermo-nuclear scythe.

A thin stemlike excrescence, the queue of scarlet molten matter slowly pushing its way toward the surface in an expanding lithospheric fissure, protruded from the top of the reservoir some distance away.