Stem shape
Called stem shape
- in natural sciences:
- the shape of a tree trunk
- in cladistics the parent species of a phylogenetic group
- in linguistics:
- the root word or the lexeme
- the unflexed form of a word, see also infinitive and nominative
- several forms of a verb from which all inflected forms can be derived, see root form (verb)
- in lexicography the citation form of a word, the lemma
