Glume
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
"[T]he glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters."
- 2 small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae wordnet
Example
More examples"[T]he glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters."
Etymology
From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).