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Spikelet

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge.
  2. 2
    A reproductive shoot system that is the ultimate and congested inflorescence, especially in grasses, a racemose unit consisting of one or a few closely-packed florets born along a rachilla and subtended by two glumes wordnet

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From spike + -let.

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