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(noun) the head of an annotation or gloss |
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Related Words: head, heading |
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(noun) a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition |
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Related Words: proposition |
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(noun) the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae |
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Synonyms: flowering glume |
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Related Words: glume |
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