Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spikelet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spikelet \Spike"let\, n. (Bot.)
A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate
parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of
{Quaking grass}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spikelet
n : a small spike (as the inflorescence on grasses and sedges)
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