glume
Americannoun
noun
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botany one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses
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the bract beneath each flower in a sedge or related plant
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Etymology
Origin of glume
1570–80; < Latin glūma husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably equivalent to glūb ( ere ) to strip the bark from + *-sma noun suffix
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Glume 1–3-nerved, with 2 small teeth, and a short awn in the cleft.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Glume rounded or keeled on the back, mostly awned below the 2-cleft tip, 5–9-nerved.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Glume; Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Glume, glōōm, n. a term applied to certain bracts in grasses and sedges.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Forked catchfly, 130Foxtail, green, yellow, 117 Garlic, field, wild, 119Gaura, 147Geraniaceae, 142Geranium family, 142 Glume, one of the outer floral envelopes in grasses or sedges.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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