Lexeme

/lˈɛksiːm/

Lexeme

(linguistics) a basic linguistic unit that is meaningful and underlies a set of words which are related through inflection

Examples

1. They call each of these units lexemes or lexical items, because they're the parts of a lexicon, which is another word for dictionary.

2. So, tense aspect combination that is occur less often than there are verbs available in the language are cued by N-grams, but tense aspect combinations that occur overwhelmingly more in the input will cued by their own lexemes, so to speak.