Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chaffy bract or bractlet characterizing the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, and other Glumaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or
bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second glume is shorter than the third, membranous, 3 - to 5-nerved, rarely wanting.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The callus of the third glume is short, pointed and villous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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A spathe of calyptrous glume involucrumines the perinanthean
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Long-glume types with high seed weight are especially promising for increasing seed size.
2. Finger Millet 1996
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· The degree to which the glume adheres to the grain.
4. Pearl Millet 1996
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Evening grain washing preparation of fermentation grain washing preparation of fermentation glume removal glume removal
1. Objectives of the Introduction of Animal-Powered Mills 1996
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In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice.
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It is a slender grass with digitate spikes, which have much of the habit of _Digitaria_, but which, on account of the absence of the small outer glume existing in that genus, Mr. Keppist, Librarian of the Linnean Society, of London, refers to _Paspalum_.
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