Crossword-Solution: SPIKELET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spikelet | n. | A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPIKELET | anagram | PIKELETS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SPIKELET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Secondary offshoot. | 1 answer |
| Small ear: Bot. | 1 answer |
| Small floral cluster | 1 answer |
| unit of a grass inflorescence | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAMZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPIKELET (5)
Surprised by this foul play, the Tarantula has no time to release her hold; gripping the spikelet, she is thrown some inches away from the burrow.
The heavy beards were eliminated and the grains or kernels in each spikelet increased from the normal number of three to five, seven, and even nine.
Gradually a haze spun itself over the landscape, and Ralph Peden's head slowly fell back till it rested somewhat sharply upon a spikelet of prickly whin.
Morphologically however, the spikelet is not homologous to those parts of other grasses which have the same name.
The seed, planted in the ground, sends a little rootlet down, and a little spikelet up, by the same vital act.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–2015).