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Meaning of "spikelet"
Spikelet (noun) - a small spike or spikelike cluster, especially in grasses or cereals. It refers to the unit of inflorescence in plants like wheat, barley, or rice
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- A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge.
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The spikelet has many hairy bracts.
The seeds easily break out of the spikelet.
Each spikelet has one or more florets.
Lemma is a phytomorphological term referring to a part of the spikelet.
Inside each spikelet is a tiny flower.
The substitution of sucrose with mannitol inhibited both tassel growth and spikelet development.
The spikelet is pale and shiny.
The first glume of the sessile spikelet is bikeeled.
The spikelet contains one flower.
It is called a spikelet or a dragon.
The spikelet pairs develop from one primordium.
Glumes are shorter than a spikelet and thinner than fertile lemma.
Each spikelet has around ten flowers enclosed in dark bracts.
Each pair is made up of one fertile spikelet and one sterile.
Each spikelet is about half a centimeter long and purplish in color.
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The six to twelve florets on each spikelet have concealed bases at maturity.
Each spikelet has one fertile floret and one or two sterile florets.
The glume is shorter than a spikelet and thinner than fertile lemma.
The fruits are developed from a two-flowered spikelet.
The fruit of each spikelet is tipped with a bent awn.
In sedges, by contrast, a glume is a scale at the base of each flower in a spikelet.
The formation of multiflorous spikelet is a complex character due to its variable expressivity.
Its glumes are of pinkish-red colour and are much longer than the spikelet.
There is one floret per spikelet with several spikelets per branch.
Each spikelet is up to 2 centimeters long with a short awn of just a few millimeters.
The inflorescence is a panicle in which each spikelet contains one fertile flower.
The entire spikelet breaks away from the plant as a unit for fruit dispersal.
The name refers to the fact that each spikelet contains only one grain.
Moreover, the proximal grains were heavier than the distal grains within a spikelet.
The two glumes subtending each spikelet primordium developed alternately and acropetally.
The spikelets are on elongated pedicels, with each spikelet bearing five to fifteen flowers.
The inflorescence is an oval-shaped spikelet appearing at the tip of the stem.
Each spikelet contains up to 6 flowers.
There is usually along, stiff bract alongside each spikelet or cluster of spikelets.
Surrounding each spikelet are up to 12 yellow or purple bristles.
Two bracts, the lemma and palea, enclose each tiny flower in the spikelet.
The spikelet is up to 6 cm long.
Palea, in Poaceae, refers to one of the bract-like organs in the spikelet.
The sessile spikelet is very narrow, about 3 millimeters long.
The inflorescences is one brown spikelet with 3-6 flowers.
The terminal spikelet is usually staminate, occasionally androgynous, gynecandrous, or pistillate.
As such there are usually 1-2 flowers per spikelet.
Each spikelet may be up to 5 centimeters long and may contain 20 flowers.
Each package of glumes, lemma and palaea, and grain ( s ) is known as a spikelet.
Each spikelet is one or two centimetres long and contains 2 or 3 flowers.
Another plate called “ Red Ribbon ” featuring Soviet symbols, a red ribbon, hammer and sickle, and spikelet.
The spikelet is under a centimeter long and contains up to 10 tiny flowers.
On an oaten spikelet And on a wheat pie . I got here on a perch, on a furrow.
Each spikelet may be up to 4.5 centimeters long and may contain up to 16 flowers.
Each spikelet has an awn up to about 3.5 centimeters long.
