spikelet

spikelet
/spuyk"lit/, n. Bot.
a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
[1785-95; SPIKE2 + -LET]

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