lemma English

Meaning lemma meaning

What does lemma mean?

lemma

— noun a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

— noun the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

— noun the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

Synonyms lemma synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lemma?

lemma English » English

theme

subject

flowering glume

topic

title

thesis

text

surmise

surmisal

supposition

supposal

rubric

presumption

postulate

posit

object matter

lemmata

headword

heading

entry word

canonical form

base form

argument