LEMMA

• (noun) the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

• (noun) a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

• (noun) the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

  synonyms : flowering glume

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