lemma

• 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
• the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
• A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Ethiopia in Oromiya

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