单词 | spikelet |
释义 | spikelet (once / 11738 pages) n WORD FAMILY spikelet: spikelets USAGE EXAMPLESFlowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous. Gray, Asa, The Manual of the Botany of the Nor...(2012) The minute flowers are arranged in spikelets somewhat as in grasses, and these again in larger spike-like or panicled inflorescences. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) Pan′icum, a large genus of true grasses having the one or two-flowered spikelets in spikes, racemes, or panicles—including the common millet. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012) n a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf Syn|Hypo|Hyper pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn glochid, glochidium a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) aculeus a stiff sharp-pointed plant process |
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