Lemma vs. Palea

Lemmanoun

(mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

Lemmanoun

The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

Lemmanoun

(psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

Lemmanoun

(botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

Lemmanoun

(botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

Lemmanoun

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

Lemmanoun

A word that is included in a glossary or list of headwords; a headword.

Lemmanoun

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

Lemmanoun

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

Lemmanoun

the head of an annotation or gloss

Paleanoun

(botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Paleanoun

(botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

Paleanoun

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Paleanoun

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.