The basic unit of a grass flower, consisting of two glumes or outer bracts at the base and one or more florets above.
〔植〕小穗；小穗状花序
Example sentencesExamples
Similar results were presented in experiments where the sterilization of florets led to more grain setting and greater grain growth in the untreated spikelets.
At the base of each spikelet, there is a pair of sterile glumes that surrounds a series of flowers (five to eight in number).
The female flowers can be distinguished by long, silky hairs at the bases of the flower spikelets.
From early summer on, stiff yellow stems are topped with purple spikelets.
Diseased spikelets may be entirely transformed into dark fungal spore masses.
Definition of spikelet in US English:
spikelet
nounˈspīklitˈspaɪklɪt
Botany
The basic unit of a grass flower, consisting of two glumes or outer bracts at the base and one or more florets above.
〔植〕小穗；小穗状花序
Example sentencesExamples
The female flowers can be distinguished by long, silky hairs at the bases of the flower spikelets.
From early summer on, stiff yellow stems are topped with purple spikelets.
Similar results were presented in experiments where the sterilization of florets led to more grain setting and greater grain growth in the untreated spikelets.
Diseased spikelets may be entirely transformed into dark fungal spore masses.
At the base of each spikelet, there is a pair of sterile glumes that surrounds a series of flowers (five to eight in number).