Meaning

1 senses
  1. A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge.

    Ährchen

    a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I have an oat spikelet across my throat.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
botany: secondary spike:

Forms

plural: spikelets
Singularspikelet
Pluralspikelets

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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