Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glume"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glume \Glume\, n. [L. gluma hull, husk, fr. glubere to bark or
peel: cf. F. glume or gloume.] (Bot.)
The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and
grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. --Gray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glume
n : small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of
Gramineae and Cyperaceae
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