Stemmy

a. [f. STEM sb.¹ + -Y.]

  1.  Having long bare stems.

1552.  Huloet, Stalkye or stemmye herbes which be no trees and yet growe in height.

1827.  Steuart, Planter’s G. (1828), 299. Letting the principal members of your group be tall and stemmy.

1865.  Reader, No. 122. 477/3. Stemmy herbage and productive trees.

  2.  Of a root: Long and slender like a stem.

1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Root, Cauliformes, i. e. Stemmy or Stalky, which shoot down deep directly, though often sending out Fibres and Strings from the great Stem.

  3.  Containing stems.

1863.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XXIV. I. 134. The larger stemmy and leafy portions were thus separated.

1892.  Walsh, Tea, 182. ‘Dusty’ and ‘stemmy’ teas in particular.