| MECHANICALENGINEERING | One of the STEM disciplines: 2 wds. |
| FLORET | Diminutive bloom forming part of a composite flower; or, any one of the stems making up a head of broccoli or cauliflower (6) |
| FLOWERARRANGING | Stem discipline |
| EPICOTYL | Part of the stem of an embryo plant or seedling above the embryonic leaves (cotyledons) and below the terminal bud (8) |
| OCREA | Sheathing part of a plant at the node of the stem (5) |
| ARODOUT | "And there shall come forth ___ of the stem of Jesse"--Isaiah |
| AROD | "And there shall come forth ___ out of the stem of Jesse .. |
| THORN | Sharp, hard part of the stem, root, leaf of a plant (5) |
| PITH | Soft spongy matter in the centre of the stems of certain plants |
| BARK | Protective layer on the outside of the stems of woody plants (4) |
| BRANCHES | Divisions of the stem (8) |
| AXIL | In botany, the angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs (4) |
| DAISYCHAIN | String of wild flowers threaded through the stem of the next |
| PRICKLE | Collective noun for a group of porcupines; or, a sharp projection on the stem of some type of rose ( |
| OBOVATE | An oval leaf with the stem end wider is ovate; one with the stem end narrower is ....... (7) |
| GRAFT | Join a shoot or bud of one plant to the stem of another (5) |
| AMIDSHIP | In the morning, I had first sore hip between the stem and stern of the vessel (8) |
| ASPEN | Type of tree in which the leaves are attached to the stem by long flattened stalks so that they quiver in the wind (5) |
| GRAFTED | Inserted a shoot of a plant into the stem of another plant |
| ACROCARPOUS | What kind of moss has the sporophyte terminal on the stem? (11) |
