glume
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English
Etymology
From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
glume (plural glumes)
- (botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
- [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.
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French
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Noun
glume f (plural glumes)
Further reading
- “glume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Noun
glume f
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
glume f
- inflection of glumă: