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LEMMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lemma" is a kind of...):

glume (small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae)

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