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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...
- Malabar nut (Justicia adhatoda) and chaff flowers (genus Achyranthes). A spikelet can refer to a small spike, although it primarily refers to the ultimate...
- 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...
- Technically, the inflorescence unit in a gr**** is the spikelet, but the arrangement of spikelets may be described as a panicle. "In the form of a panicle"...
- dictionary. Foxtail or fox tail may refer to: Foxtail (diaspore), the dry spikelet or spikelet cluster of some gr****es Alopecurus, foxtail gr****es - the scientific...
- 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...
- any outgrowths of tissue Sclerite, hardened body parts of invertebrates Spikelet, the inflorescence of gr****es Stylet (anatomy), a piercing structure Tubercle...
- contains pairs of spikelets. Each pair has a stalked spikelet with another stalkless spikelet at the base of the stalk. The stalkless spikelet usually has a...