1. devices or tools used to remove stems from fruits, vegetables, or other plants
2. computer programs that reduce words to their root forms by removing suffixes and prefixes
Usage: computing; linguistics

Examples

• The kitchen stemmers made quick work of preparing the strawberries.
• She used cherry stemmers to remove the stems before baking the pie.
• The grape stemmers separated the fruit from the stems efficiently.
• Natural language processing systems rely on stemmers to analyze text.
• The search engine uses stemmers to match different word forms.
• These stemmers can reduce ‘running’ and ‘runs’ to the root ‘run’.