Glume

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  • noun. A bract, usually one of two, at the base of a grass spikelet.
  • noun. A bract in a sedge spikelet, usually subtending a floret.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A chaffy bract or bractlet characterizing the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, and other Glumaceæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
    • Word Usage
    "The second glume is shorter than the third, membranous, 3 - to 5-nerved, rarely wanting."
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    empty glume  flowering glume  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bract  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    flowering glume  lemma  
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