spikelet

• As a type for the spikelet that of an Eragrostis or Dinebra may be chosen. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The palea can easily be distinguished from the glume, because its insertion in the spikelet is different from that of the glume Illustration: Fig. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• All the species in which there is a joint just below the spikelet, in the pedicel, in the rachis, or at the base of a cluster of spikelets come under one series =Panicaceć=. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The littoral grass Spinifex is dioecious The first glume of the spikelet is the smallest. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The first glume is membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 1/3 the length of the spikelet or very much less, 3-nerved, densely ciliate along the margins and silkily hairy between the nerves. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms