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glume

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

Noun

glume (plural glumes)

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

glume meaning in Tamil

glume in Tamil

உமியடிச்செதில், உமிச் செதில், உறிஞ்சும்பிரதேசம்

Forms of glume

pluralglumes

Origin of glume

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

Words formed from glume

Words that rhyme with glume

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Questions about glume

What does glume mean?
Glume means a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
What is glume in Tamil?
Glume in Tamil is உமியடிச்செதில், உமிச் செதில், உறிஞ்சும்பிரதேசம். See Glume meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is glume?
Glume is a noun.
What is the plural of glume?
The plural of glume is glumes.

Words near glume in the dictionary

  1. glulisine
  2. glum
  3. glumaceous
  4. glumal
  5. glumamycin
  6. glume
  7. glumed
  8. glumelike
  9. glumella
  10. glumellas
  11. glumelle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glume (page history and authors); glume (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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