spikelet

A small or secondary spike, characteristic of grasses and sedges, bearing one or more florets and usually subtended by one or two bracts.

In botany, a small or secondary spike: more especially applied to the spiked arrangements of two or more flowers of grasses, subtended by one or more glumes, and variously disposed around a common axis. See cuts under Meliceæ, oat, orchardgrass, Poa, reed, rye, and Sorghum.

A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of quaking grass.

A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge

a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf