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glume

  [gloom]
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–noun Botany.
one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., esp. one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
Origin:
1570–80; < L glūma husk enclosing a cereal grain, prob. equiv. to glūb(ere) to strip the bark from + *-sma n. suffix

Related forms:
glumelike, adjective
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glume   (glōōm)   
n.  One of the two chaffy basal bracts of a grass spikelet.

[Latin glūma, husk; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
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glume   (glm)  Pronunciation Key 
One of the two chaffy bracts at the base of a grass spikelet.
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