glume

(glo͞om)

1. A bract, usually one of two, at the base of a grass spikelet.

2. A bract in a sedge spikelet, usually subtending a floret.

[Latin glūma, husk; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots.]

glu·ma′ceous (glo͞o-mā′shəs) adj.

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glume

(ɡluːm)

1. (Botany) botany one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses

2. (Botany) the bract beneath each flower in a sedge or related plant

[C18: from Latin glūma husk of corn; related to Latin glūbere to remove the bark from]

gluˈmaceous adj

ˈglumeˌlike adj

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glume

(glum)

n.

one of a pair of chafflike bracts enclosing the floral parts of a spikelet in grasses.

[1570–80; < Latin glūma husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably =glūb(ere) to strip the bark from + *-sma n. suffix]

glu•ma•ceous (gluˈmeɪ ʃəs) adj.

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Noun

glume - small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

bract - a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence

flowering glume, lemma - the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

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Each lateral spikelet emerges from the axillary bud of a bract, bearing a prophyll and a varying number of glumes arranged on an open axis (rachilla); some or all of these glumes develop an axillary flower, so some taxa have empty glumes, while in other taxa each glume carries a flower.

Spikelet structure in Cypereae (Cyperoideae-Cyperaceae)

Spikelets with unequal acute glumes; lower glume 1.8-3.3 mm long; upper glume 2.5-4.4 x 0.9-1.4 mm.

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The former is a tall perennial plant with long leaf blades and the second glume is shorter than the spikelet.

A synopsis of Digitaria (Paniceae, Panicoideae, Poaceae) in Mexico, including the new species Digitaria michoacanensis

The aim of this study is to investigate opposite morphologic traits and manner of inheritance of spring, glume and ear form traits.

Genetics diversity investigation in F2 generation based phonological, phenotypic and quantitative traits in wheat

the traits sere as follow: The height of the bush, the length of ears, number of claw, straw weight, seed yield in bush, glume, ear density, number of days till appearance of ear, number of days till appearance of ear, number of days till physiologic growth, need to making spring cultivar, total dry matter and harvest index.

Diversity analysis in an F2 population of hybrid from Faisalabad x Fm36 using morphological and RADP molecular markers

The strain of barley that is grown for pearling has a stubbornly clingy "glume," or inedible husk, that has to be removed mechanically.

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The glume size is medium, and the glume shoulder has a wanting shape.

Registration of 'Wendy' wheat

Infestation with Septoria leaf blotch and glume blotch was less severe on Grant than on Caldwell.

Winter wheat gets new resistance to Hessian fly

The suspected parent -- some extinct, pod-bearing popcorn - wrapped each seed in a chaff-like glume, the same type of wrapper that encases individual wheat seeds, Van der Merwe says.

Corn's slow path to stardom: archeologists rewrite the history of maize - and New World civilization

4-7 glumes are sterile, the lowest fertile glume bears a pistillate

Inflorescence structure in Koyamaeae and its relationship with Sclerieae, Bisboeckelereae, Cryptagieae and Trilepideae tribes (Cyperoideae-cyperaceae)

Lower glume 3-4 x 0.5-0.7 mm, slightly concave, lanceolate, chartaceous, margins glabrous, 2nerved, acute apex; upper glume 2.6-3.1 x 0.7-1 mm, chartaceous, margins glabrous, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves tenuous, acute apex.

Nombres validos para hibridos del complejo Andropogon lateralis (Poaceae, Andropogoneae) sobre la base de analisis multivariados