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Spikelet

noun
1.
A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.  Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn.






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"Spikelet" Quotes from Famous Books



... has escaped. Very often, too, the conceit embodied is preposterously poor. You have as it were a casket of finest gold elaborately wrought and embellished, and the gem within is a mere spangle of paste, a trumpery spikelet of crystal. No doubt there is a man's heart beating underneath; but so thick is the envelope of buckram and broidery and velvet through which it has to make itself audible that its pulsations are sometimes hard to count, while to follow it throb by throb is ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... generally smaller than F. utilis. Its stem is only 2 mm. in diameter. The flowers, densely clustered into spikelets, are generally of two colors—straw and brown. They reach 1 cm. in length and 4 mm. in diameter. Below the spikelet the stem has from 3 to 5 sides. The roots are fibrous; underground stems may occur, but they are never ...
— Philippine Mats - Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 • Hugo H. Miller



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