Small floral cluster

Usage examples of spikelet.

Wild einkorn has brittle ears, and the individual spikelets break up at maturity to disperse the seed.

Tarantula was under no misapprehension as to the trap which I was setting for her, I was not a little surprised, when I pushed the stalk far enough down to twist it round her hiding-place, to see her play with the spikelet more or less contemptuously and push it away with her legs, without troubling to retreat to the back of her lair.

I waved a spikelet at the entrance of the burrow to imitate the humming of a Bee and attract the attention of the Lycosa, who rushes out, thinking that she is capturing a prey.

I insert into the burrow, as far down as I can, a stalk with a fleshy spikelet, which the Spider can bite into.

Tarantula who has bitten into the insidious spikelet to the entrance of the burrow.

Just an old, pitted, wrought-iron spikelet, cleverly encased in a crystal tube, the whole then set in a gold brooch and surrounded by small pigeon-blood rubies.

It has the power of waving its spikelets, and of the thousand of truncated tentacles which cover the spikelets each seems to possess independent action.

The Oat is a native of Britain in its wild and uncultivated form, and is distinguished by the spikelets of its ears hanging on slender pedicels.

Dense and dismal plantations of black-looking Scotch firs are enlivened at intervals by the delicate and tender green spikelets of a sprouting larch.