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Definition of Glumella
1. n. One of the palets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Definition of Glumella
1. a leaf on grassy plants [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glumella
Literary usage of Glumella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Botanist's Field-book: A Synopsis of the British Flowering Plants by Archibald Prentice Childs (1857)
"Nerves of the outer glumella silky. s Root creeping by scions; ligule obtuse. 8.
... Smooth-stalked M. Ligule prominent; outer glumella 5-ribbed ; the lower ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"S. glauca, Glaucous Bristle-Gross, has a panicle spiked, continuous; bristles of
the involucre rough, with erect teeth ; outer glumella of the fruit ..."
3. The Bamboo Garden by Alfred Parsons (1896)
"The spikelet bearing one flower consists of (1) one glume, or chaff-like inferior
bract; (2) one glumella, or small superior bract; (3) two diminutive ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1858)
"By this movement the external glumella is curved a good deal outwards, ...
I must give warning that the outer glumella sometimes carries off the inner ..."
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