tüvesid

Tüvesid is the plural form of the Estonian noun tüvi, a term with several related meanings in everyday and technical language. The most common sense in botany is that tüvi refers to the stem or trunk of a plant or tree; therefore tüvesid denotes multiple stems or trunks, for example in a multi-stemmed shrub or in a young tree that has several leaders.

In horticulture and forestry, tüvi is used to describe the main axis of a plant and can also refer to the part of a plant that is trained or pruned to influence shape and growth. When discussing grafting, the word tüvi may be encountered in reference to the scion or the continuing stem of a plant, with tüvesid used when several such parts are involved or described collectively.

In microbiology and genetics, tüvi denotes a strain or lineage of an organism. In this context, tüvesid would refer to multiple strains being studied, compared, or referenced, such as different microbial strains used in experiments or surveillance.

The term appears across scientific, agricultural, and technical Estonian texts, often requiring context to determine whether it refers to physical stems or to biological lineages. As with many Estonian nouns, tüvesid is used in inflected forms depending on grammatical role and sentence structure.

See also: tüvi.