glume
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of glume
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A 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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).
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