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Meaning of "spikelets"

spikelet (noun) - A small cluster of spike-like structures, especially in botany referring to the unit of a grass inflorescence
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The spikelets closely overlap in two rows.
The inflorescence is a narrow series of cylindrical spikelets.
The female spikelets may be single or several.
The lesson of beadwork of the solar spikelets.
They have fertile spikelets that are pediceled.
The spikelets are two or three millimeters long.
It is a spikelike series of many small whitish or grayish spikelets.
The spikelets are paired and have no awns.
A single larva generally feeds on a series of consecutive spikelets.
The spikelets are few and egg shaped.
The branches are lined with spikelets.
The spikelets are light brown when mature.
The inflorescence is an open array of spikelets.
The spikelets are just a few millimeters in length.
The inflorescence is a dense bunch or open array of spikelets.

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The spikelets have one flower each.
Each raceme contains pairs of spikelets.
The spikelets are borne in an open or somewhat open panicle.
The small single flower spikelets length approx.
The spikelets have purplish bracts.
Nudisativa is characterized by producing multiflora spikelets and naked kernels.
The spikelets are cuneate with one fertile floret.
The inflorescence is often separated into distinct bunches of spikelets.
Fertile spikelets have filiformed pedicels.
The panicle branches are capillary and carry distant spikelets.
The hairy spikelets are just under a centimeter in length.
The inflorescence contains both male and female spikelets.
Spikelets are borne in clusters of three.
The inflorescence is a panicle of spikelets.
The spikelets are flattened and usually hairy or downy.
Each branch is lined with pairs of very tiny spikelets.
Spikelets are the units of the secondary grass inflorescence.
The inflorescence is an open panicle of just a few small spikelets.
The awnless spikelets are placed in small open tops.
The inflorescence is a cluster of several rounded spikes containing many spikelets.
The spikelets are further grouped into panicles or spikes.
The inflorescence is a spike with spikelets mostly solitary or sometimes paired.
Spikelets are in length and are oblong.
Biomass allocation to subterranean spikelets and seeds was unaffected by nutrient addition.
Spikelets are cuneate and are solitary.
The flowers are colorless and the spikelets are tipped with bristles.
The awnless spikelets are collected in an open oblonged spike.
It has hairy leaves and open inflorescences of fuzzy flat spikelets.
The spikelets are oblong or gaping.
The inflorescence is a dense dark brown spherical cluster of indistinct spikelets.
The spikelets vary in color.
Their shorter rachis segments lead to spikelets packed closer together.
The spikelets are solitary or paired.
The inflorescence is a small array of a few narrow branches bearing spikelets.
Double spikelets occurred occasionally at central nodes of the spikes.

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