lemma
noun [ C ] language specialized uk/ˈlem.ə/ us/ˈlem.ə/
（词典中的）词目，条目
a form of a word that appears as an entry in a dictionary and is used to represent all the other possible forms. For example, the lemma "build" represents "builds", "building", "built", etc.
Only headword lemmas are placed in the table. 表格中只列出了词目。
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- The lemma and form together make up the information associated with the lexical entry for each word in the lexicon.
- The lemmatised form is simply a convenient representation of the headword lemma.
- During the lemma selection process, semantically and syntactically appropriate lexical items are selected from the mental lexicon.