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glume

[gloom]

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noun

Botany.

one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.

glume

/ ɡ��ː�� /

botany one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses
the bract beneath each flower in a sedge or related plant

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Origin of glume¹

1570–80; < Latin ��ū�� husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably equivalent to ��ū�� ( ere ) to strip the bark from + *-sma noun suffix

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Origin of glume¹

C18: from Latin ��ū�� husk of corn; related to Latin ��ū��ere to remove the bark from

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Flowering glume awnless, in fruit more rigid than the empty glumes.

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The others retained the elongated, narrow, brownish-red ears, the flowering glumes again opening wide for some days.

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Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough: The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now.

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Fertile glumes generally longer than the empty, unawned or with a straight, terminal awn.

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Chaff, small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composit�; the glumes, &c., of grasses.

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