Glume [noun]
Definition of Glume:
covering, case
Synonyms of Glume:
Sentence/Example of Glume:
In both the fruits fall out freely from the glume, and in the latter the awns are three-pronged and shorter than the grain.
The flowering glume is divided at the tip, and provided with a long, bent, twisted bristle.
Flowers all perfect; flowering glume bifid, short-awned between the teeth.
Flowering glume and palet herbaceous, the former (anterior) convex, long-awned from the apex.
Outer glumes unequal, often bristle-pointed; the flowering glume tipped with three awns; the palet much smaller.
Flower coriaceous; the glume rounded on the back, acute or awned at the apex.
Grain adherent to the involving glume (whence the name, an ancient one for some grain, from , to roll up).
The upper thin chaffy or hyaline bract which with the glume encloses the flower in Grasses.
Notice the remarkably long squamul or hypogynous scales, which here nearly equal the glume in length.
The first glume is longer than the second glume, very acute or acuminate.