The phrase "a long stump" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a stump that is notably lengthy, often in contexts related to trees or plants.
Example: "After the storm, we were left with a long stump that needed to be removed from the yard."
Alternatives: "an extended stump" or "a lengthy stump".
At the Boulder rally on Saturday, in the latest in a series of long stump speeches to large and enthusiastic crowds, Sanders pursued the mental health line.
Work to the mid-section of the pier, built in 1859/1860, will include sending divers down to replace a 14-ft (4.5-metre) long stump in the sea bed.
The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.
While their findings provide an answer to a riddle that had long stumped biologists, Extavour and her colleagues began their research by asking a simple question: Because germ cells are critical to the reproduction of so many plants and animals, could there be a single genetic pathway — one that evolution never tinkered with — to create them?
Calle voiced excitement about the opportunity to figure out a sustainable business model — a challenge that has long stumped leaders of most print publications.
The team are looking at what the iron actually does, and have found it forms patterns in a diatom's outer shell that resemble the staves of a barrel.Anton Barty, of the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, Germany, meanwhile, has helped solve a problem that has long stumped biologists: how to work out the structure of a protein that cannot be crystallised.
Three of these help resolve a puzzle that has long stumped modern science: Why do archetypal images, prayers and gestures exert a stubborn hold even on scientifically schooled minds?
Here's a puzzle that has long stumped social scientists: Why do high status people value cultural items we might expect them to dismiss for lack of sophistication or low status associations?
A better understanding of these phenomena, which have long stumped scientists, may translate into more accurate weather forecasts, climate models and early-warning systems against devastating seismic events.
Reconstruction can be impossible if retraction of the stump causes a long distance between the stump and the ischial tuberosity.
