stub

4 letters · noun · scores 400 in SpellHuntr

noun

a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost

verb

pull up (weeds) by their roots

Stub in a sentence

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

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