lemma

noun

the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

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

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

Roots

lambaneinlemma- · Greek · to take, receive

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