stemmer

Noun

• a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

• a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

• an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

• a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

• a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stemming algorithm , stripper , sprigger