glume
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Etymology edit
From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun edit
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 edit
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Noun edit
glume f (plural glumes)
Further reading edit
- “glume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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glume f
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glume f
- inflection of glumă: