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LEMMA
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Irregular inflected form: lemmata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lemma" is a kind of...):
head; header; heading (a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lemma" is a kind of...):
proposition ((logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
Synonyms:
flowering glume; lemma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lemma" is a kind of...):
glume (small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae)
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