pikelet's Usage Examples:

The small flowers or spikelets are borne in pairs on the ultimate branches of a much branched feathery plume-like terminal grey inflorescence, 2 ft.

Hilum a point; spikelets not laterally compressed.

In Cynosurus (Dog's tail) -- C the pectinate involucre which conceals the spikelet is a barren or abortive spikelet.

They are commonly firm and strong, often enclose the spikelet, and are rarely provided with long points or imperfect awns.

The minute flowers are arranged in spikelets somewhat as in grasses, and these again in larger spike-like or panicled inflorescences.

All the flowers of each triplet of spikelets on both sides of the rachis are fertile and produce ripe fruits; hence the ear produces six longitudinal rows of grain.

The cultivators p g) y' make two principal C, spikelet of B (enlarged).

The central fruits of each triplet form two regular rows, but the lateral spikelets form not four straight single rows as in (ii.

The species of Heteropogon, a cosmopolitan genus in the warmer parts of the world, have strongly awned spikelets.

In the common wheats the chaffscales are boat-shaped, ovoid, of the consistence of parchment, and shorter than the spikelet; the seed is usually floury, opaque, white, and easily broken.

The axis of the spikelet is frequently jointed and breaks up into articulations above each flower.

They are called " huitzilin " (spikelet) by the 'Aztecs, and " colibri," " chupaflor " and " chupa-miel " (floweror honey-sucker), and " pajaromosca " (fly-bird) by the Spanish-speaking Mexicans.