1. a person or machine that removes stems from fruit, vegetables, or tobacco
2. a computer program that reduces words to their root form by removing suffixes
Usage: computing

Examples

• The cherry stemmer quickly removed all the stems from the fruit.
• Workers used a mechanical stemmer to process the tobacco leaves.
• The grape stemmer separated the berries from their stems efficiently.
• The search engine uses a stemmer to match different word forms.
• A Porter stemmer reduces words like ‘running’ to ‘run’.
• The text analysis software includes an advanced stemmer algorithm.