Definition of Spikelet. Meaning of Spikelet. Synonyms of Spikelet

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Definition of Spikelet

Spikelet
Spikelet Spike"let, n. (Bot.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

Meaning of Spikelet from wikipedia

- A spikelet, in botany, describes the typical arrangement of the inflorescences of gr****es, sedges and some other monocots. Each spikelet has one or more...
- The Law of Spikelets or Law of Three Spikelets (Russian: Закон о трёх колосках, Закон о пяти колосках, Закон семь-восемь) was a decree in the Soviet Union...
- A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of a gr****, that serves to dis**** its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal...
- bearing rows of spikelets. Each spikelet is a flat fruit with a rough, bristly lemma without an awn, and no glumes. Some of the spikelet branches develop...
- Malabar nut (Justicia adhatoda) and chaff flowers (genus Achyranthes). A spikelet can refer to a small spike, although it primarily refers to the ultimate...
- domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikelets and making it much easier to harvest. Its use then spread throughout Eurasia...
- In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of gr****es (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges...
- inflorescence consisting of two spike-like racemes containing multiple tiny spikelets, each about 2.8–3.5 millimetres (0.11–0.14 in) long. This gr**** is low-growing...
- inflorescence is a feathery array of spikelet units. Each unit is composed of one hairy, tan, fertile spikelet with a twisted awn up to 3.5 centimeters...
- Italian and escanda menor in Spanish. The name refers to the fact that each spikelet contains only one grain. Einkorn wheat was one of the first plants to be...