glume

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.

词形变化

glumes plural

词源

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