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Future332 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Stem or trunk

What is the difference between a stem and a trunk?
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Trees and elephants have trunks. Smaller plants have stems.

— Mister Micawber

  • Trees and elephants have trunks.
  • Smaller plants have stems.
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Trees and elephants have trunks. Smaller plants have stems.
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Flowers and bushes have stems. Trees and elephants have trunks.
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Vic ZTrees and elephants have trunks.
Also people who travel by steamer have trunks.
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AlpheccaStars people who travel by steamer
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So is asparagus trunks or stems? Or stalks?

And then there's potatoes. I believe I once read that botanically they are stems.
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future332What is the difference between a stem and a trunk?
Essentially, thickness, I'd say.

CJ
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Mister Micawber??
Short for steamship.
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AlpheccaStarssteamship
Do we have those anymore?
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Mister MicawberDo we have those anymore?
Gone with the Titanic and her graceful, elegant sisters.
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American cars have trunks too, but strangely, not English ones.
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