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Definition of Glume
1. Noun. Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae.
Definition of Glume
1. n. The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet.
Definition of Glume
1. Noun. (botany) a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (''Poaceae'') and sedges (''Cyperaceae'') ¹
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Definition of Glume
1. a bract on grassy plants [n -S]
Medical Definition of Glume
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glume
Literary usage of Glume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Flowering glume awned at the tip (except No. 35) of a firmer texture, ...
Flowering glume owned below the tip. 3d. STII'A. Flowering glume with a single ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"June-Aug. nerves; the glume scarcely j a» long as the pale fertile, lemma. ...
pubescent between the smooth or scabrous nerves ; second | glume about j as ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Culms slender, cespitose, two to four feet high; leaves scabrous; spike one;
first empty glume nearly as long as the spikelet ..."
4. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Flowering glume , usually with a tooth lobe or short awn on each side of the terminal
... Flowering glume Spikelets distant, 3 lines long. Flowering glume ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"Carex ; a gingle, fertile flower ; a, the glume ; b, ... a menv Fie. generally
perfect, in little spikelets composed of bracts imbricated in 2 rows, glume*. ..."
6. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"6—12, round-ovate, downy, nearly equal to the ovate colored glume (which ia brown,
edged with white). Culm 3—6', leafy at base. Rocky hills, E. Mass. ..."
7. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Outer glumes strongly compressed, boat-shaped, keeled, nearly equal, frequently
united at base ; flowering glume shorter, keeled, with a slender dorsal awn, ..."
8. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"The Gluma t> °r glume, is a species of calyx restricted to the gramina, or grasses.
... The glume has received different names, according to the number of ..."
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