Meaning Of The Word Glume

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glume in American English
either of the two empty sterile bracts at the base of a grass spikelet, or a similar structure on the spikelets of sedges
noun: one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., esp. one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet

glume in British English
noun: one of a pair of dry membranous bracts at the base of the spikelet of grasses

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