LEMMA

Lemma

In morphology and lexicography, a lemma is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of words . In English, for example, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, with run as the lemma.

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lemma

Noun

  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  2. The canonical form of an inflected word.
  3. A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.
  4. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.


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