glume

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noun

A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).

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Meanings

nounglume (plural glumes)

plural glumes

  1. biologyA basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).

    [T]he glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.

    1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9

Origin

  1. Latingluma“husk of grain”
  2. Englishglume

From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).

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Translations

Catalan gluma
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Finnish kale
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French glume
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German Spelze
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Hungarian toklász, pelyva
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Italian gluma
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Polish plewka
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Romanian glumă
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Spanish gluma
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Welsh uslen
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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with glume

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

glume. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glume

MLA

“glume.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glume. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glume,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glume.

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