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spikeletIn botany, one of the units of a grass inflorescence. It comprises a slender axis on which one or more flowers are borne. Each individual flower or floret has a pair of scalelike bracts, the glumes, and is enclosed by a membranous lemma and a thin, narrow palea, which may be extended into a long, slender bristle, or awn. |
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