glume
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
[edit]glume (plural glumes)
- (botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
- [T]he glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.
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French
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Noun
[edit]glume f (plural glumes)
Further reading
[edit]- “glume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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[edit]glume f
Romanian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]glume f
- inflection of glumă:
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