Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lemma

3 senses of lemma

Sense 1
lemma -- (a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition)
       => proposition -- ((logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false)

Sense 2
lemma, flowering glume -- (the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae)
       => glume -- (small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae)

Sense 3
lemma -- (the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry)
       => heading, header, head -- (a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text")