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glume
[ gloom ]
noun
Botany.
- one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
glume
/ 伞濒耻藧尘 /
noun
- botany one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses
- the bract beneath each flower in a sedge or related plant
glume
- One of the two chaffy bracts at the base of a grass spikelet.
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Derived Forms
- 驳濒耻藞尘补肠别辞耻蝉, adjective
- 藞驳濒耻尘别藢濒颈办别, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 驳濒耻尘别顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of glume1
1570鈥80; < Latin 驳濒奴尘补 husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably equivalent to 驳濒奴产 ( ere ) to strip the bark from + *-sma noun suffix
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of glume1
C18: from Latin 驳濒奴尘补 husk of corn; related to Latin 驳濒奴产ere to remove the bark from
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Flowering glume awnless, in fruit more rigid than the empty glumes.
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The others retained the elongated, narrow, brownish-red ears, the flowering glumes again opening wide for some days.
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Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough: The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now.
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Fertile glumes generally longer than the empty, unawned or with a straight, terminal awn.
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Chaff, small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composit锟; the glumes, &c., of grasses.
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