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glume

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glume  (glm)
n.
One of the two chaffy basal bracts of a grass spikelet.
[Latin glma, husk; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
glume  (glm)
One of the two chaffy bracts at the base of a grass spikelet.
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Noun1.glumeglume - 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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