lemma (n.)

  1. a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

  2. the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

    [ Syn: flowering glume ]

  3. the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

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