(1) For, although my father and I are back in touch, years of barely speaking, of disappointment, disaffection, distrust and distance have damaged, perhaps for ever, the playful, pikelet-eating relationship we once had.
Spikelet
Definition:
(n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small transient all-or-none depolarizations (also termed in the literature fast prepotentials, spikelets, pseudospikes, d-spikes, or short latency depolarizations) and their association with lucifer yellow (LY) dye-coupling were analyzed in CA1-CA3 hippocampal pyramidal cells in urethane anesthetized rats.
(2) The isolates were grown on Sabouraud glucose agar for 2 days before being inoculated into boiled spikelets of Axonopus compressus (Gramineae) and then into induction medium (IM).
(3) Spikelets rose from base line as 3-10 mV depolarizing wavelets with a duration between 5 and 10 ms.
(4) The action potentials and the subthreshold spikelets were shown to be Na+ dependent and are presumably generated by a voltage-dependent inactivating Na+ conductance.
(5) Hooked macrohairs on the lemma of the spikelet show that morphological modifications in grasses for dispersal by attachment to the surface of animals were present in the Late Eocene.
(6) flower glume colour, degree of lateral spikelets development, hairy rechis of the ear, were observed in diallel crosses among the varieties Nutans 244, Trumpf, DZ-02389, Hiproly and Brachitic.
(7) Plateau potentials with a high threshold and high-threshold spikelets were Ca2+ dependent and seem to be generated by non-inactivating and possibly inactivating Ca2+ conductances.
(8) Relay cells, on the other hand, were strongly depolarized and fired spikelets at a greatly increased frequency during EOD-interruptions.
(9) It was found that (a) 15 of the 24 LY-injected pyramidal neurons (63%) showed dye-coupling; (b) spontaneous, anti- and orthodromically evoked spikelets (3-7 ms in duration; 3- to 12-mV peak) were recorded in 40 of 95 cells (42%); (c) there was a significantly higher probability of dye-coupled neurons with spikelets and of uncoupled ones without spikelets; (d) spikelet waveform and amplitude were unaffected by spontaneous or imposed polarizations; (e) large hyperpolarizations could reduce the rate and even prevent spikelets; and (f) spikelets could precede or follow spikes, the latter were more frequent with large depolarizations.
(10) Electrophysiological findings, and the association of dye-coupling and spikelets, suggest strongly that at least some spikelets are coupling potentials.
(11) Discovery of a female spikelet of the grass genus Pharus (Gramineae: Bambusoideae: Phareae) in association with mammalian hair in Dominican Republic amber provides the first fossil evidence of epizoochory.