glumelle

English

Alternative forms

• glumella

Etymology

Borrowed from French glumelle, diminutive of glume.

Noun

glumelle (plural glumelles)

1. (botany) One of the inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Translations

inner chaffy scale of flowers

• Catalan: glumel·la f
• French: glumelle (fr) f
• Spanish: glumela f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glumelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Noun

glumelle f (plural glumelles)

1. glumelle

Further reading

• “glumelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.