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Glume vs Lemma - What's the difference?

glume | lemma |

As nouns the difference between glume and lemma

is that glume is (botany) a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (poaceae) and sedges (cyperaceae) while lemma is lemma (mathematics: proposition used mainly in the proof of some other proposition).

glume

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)

    • lemma

    English

    (wikipedia lemma)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  • (linguistics, usually) The canonical form of an inflected word; ie the form usually found in dictionaries.
  • (linguistics, less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.
  • (botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

    • Synonyms

    * (linguistics: canonical form of a term) citation form

    Related terms

    * dilemma * sublemma * tetralemma * trilemma

    See also

    * basic form * canonical form * citation form * dictionary form * headword

    External links

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