Words that rhyme with mellema

n 1: state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options [syn: dilemma, quandary]

n 1: a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition 2: the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae [syn: lemma, flowering glume] 3: the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

n 1: a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work 2: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock] 3: an eye having a single lens [syn: simple eye, stemma, ocellus]

n 1: small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual