"Clean the bottom leaves, and cut the stem, with an angled cut," Mr. Bailey said.
The microdisk then rested on a stem, with the device resembling a mushroom.
To clean mushrooms without water, first trim off the bottom of the stem (with shiitakes, remove the tough stem).
If you're still not sure, flick the stem with your finger and it should come off easily.
The pods are four inches long and look as if they are attached to the stem with a ladle.
When we bought a quart of berries, we hulled them, plucking the stem with a tweezerlike gadget.
Nevertheless, stem, with its combination of the high tech and the vocational, is likely here to stay.
Susan Meyer held the cheatgrass stem with one hand and pointed them out with the other.
A smoking-pipe stem with a bore diameter of five sixty-fourths of an inch.
Cooksonia, Rhynia, and others possessing a naked stem with terminal sporangia (spore cases) belong here.
Aneurophyton had an upright nonwoody stem with lateral branches arranged in a loose spiral.
