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glume Bot.|gl(j)uːm|
[ad. L. glūma (rare) hull, husk (of grain); cf. F. glume.]
One of the chaff-like bracts which form the calyx or outer envelope in the inflorescence of grasses and sedges; the husk of corn or other grain.
[1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 26 b, Gluma is the huske of the corne whose top is the aane. 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 300 Each gluma or husk terminates in three Awns, two of which are even, the other somewhat longer.] 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 9 note, The chaffy scales of the calyx..and the glume in some Alpine grasses..grow into leaves. 1831Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) 888 Rye-grass..is now cut..when it is just coming into flower; and therefore to collect the glumes or empty husks can be of no use as seed. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life 472 Their seeds, often enveloped in chaffy glumes. 1896Edmonds Bot. for Beginners 85 Each flower [of wheat] is contained within a flowering glume and a pale. |