Glume Definition

glo͝om
noun
Either of the two empty sterile bracts at the base of a grass spikelet, or a similar structure on the spikelets of sedges.
Webster's New World
A bract in a sedge spikelet, usually subtending a floret.
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Other Word Forms of Glume

Noun

Singular:
glume
Plural:
glumes

Origin of Glume

  • The term comes from the Latin gluma, meaning "husk of grain". It can also be seen in the French verb, glubere meaning "to peel".

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin glūma husk gleubh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Glume Sentence Examples

  • In both the fruits fall out freely from the glume, and in the latter the awns are three-pronged and shorter than the grain.

  • Within these are six stamens, a hairy ovary surmounted by two feathery styles which ripens into the fruit (grain), and which is invested by the husk formed by the persistent glume and pale.

  • It is this second bract or flowering glume which has been generally called by systematists the " lower pale," and with the " upper pale " was formerly considered to form an outer floral envelope (" calyx," Jussieu; " perianthium," Brown).

  • The flowering glume has generally a more or less boat-shaped form, is of firm consistence, and possesses a well-marked central midrib and frequently several lateral ones.

  • The form of the flowering glume is very various, this organ being plastic and extensively modified in different genera.

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