Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of a wedge.
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The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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