glume
11glume´like´ — glume «gloom», noun. a chaffy bract at the base of the spikelet of grasses, sedges, and some other plants. ╂[< Latin glūma hull or husk of grain] –glume´like´, adjective …
12glume blotch — noun : any of several fungous diseases causing diffuse dark spots on the glumes * * * glume blotch, a fungous disease, especially of wheat, causing dark spots on the glumes …
13glume — noun Etymology: New Latin gluma, from Latin, hull, husk; akin to Latin glubere to peel more at cleave Date: 1789 a chaffy bract; specifically either of two empty bracts at the base of the spikelet in grasses …
14GLUME — s. f. T. de Botan. Il se dit Des paillettes ou écailles sèches qui forment l enveloppe de chaque fleur des graminées, et qu on nomme autrement Bâle …
15GLUME — n. f. T. de Botanique Enveloppe de chaque fleur des graminées et qu’on nomme autrement BALLE …
16glume — glumelike, adj. /gloohm/, n. Bot. one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., esp. one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet. [1570 80; < L gluma husk enclosing a cereal grain, prob. equiv.… …
17glume — noun a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae) …
18glume — gluËm n. small leaf in the blossoming of grass or sedge or similar plant …
19glume — [glu:m] noun Botany each of two membranous bracts surrounding the spikelet of a grass (forming the husk of a cereal grain) or one surrounding the florets of a sedge. Origin C18: from L. gluma husk …
20glume — n. Husk (of grain and grasses), hull, outer covering …
