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glume
[ gloom ]
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
/ É¡±ô³Ü˳¾ /
noun
- 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
glume
/ ²µ±ô´ÇÌ…´ÇÌ…³¾ /
- One of the two chaffy bracts at the base of a grass spikelet.
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Derived Forms
- ²µ±ô³Üˈ³¾²¹³¦±ð´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
- ˈ²µ±ô³Ü³¾±ðËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ±ô³Ü³¾±ðl¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of glume1
1570–80; < Latin ²µ±ôÅ«³¾²¹ husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably equivalent to ²µ±ôÅ«²ú ( ere ) to strip the bark from + *-sma noun suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of glume1
C18: from Latin ²µ±ôÅ«³¾²¹ husk of corn; related to Latin ²µ±ôÅ«²úere 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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