Glume
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glume is a noun meaning (botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
Meaning
(botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
Example Sentences
[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.
Word Forms
- glumes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glumella, ligule, glome, lemma, glochidium, culm.
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