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Chaffy bract
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glume
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A glume is a phytomorphological term used in botany referring to a part of the inflorescence of grasses ( Poaceae ) and sedges ( Cyperaceae ). Glumes are bracts subtending the flowers of a sedge or the spikelets of a grass. In grasses, two bracts known ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glume \Glume\ (gl[=u]m), n. [L. gluma hull, husk, fr. glubere to bark or peel: cf. F. glume or gloume.] (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet. --Gray.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
Usage examples of glume.
The Dainnan showed them how to rub the grass-seeds between their hands and let the breeze winnow the outer glumes away.
The Bearded Darnel, a common grass weed in English cornfields, is easily distinguished by its long glumes or awns and turgid, fruiting pales, containing the large grains, from the common Ray or Rye-grass (Lolium perenne), which is one of the best of the cultivated grasses, peculiarly adapted for both hay and pasture, especially in wet or uncertain climates.