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glume

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5 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eglmuStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • [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.

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