glume

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

glume (plural glumes)

1. (botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:

     [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.

Derived terms

• glumaceous
• glumal

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: gluma f
• Finnish: helve (fi)
• French: glume (fr) f
• German: (botany) Spelze (de) f
• Hungarian: toklász (hu), pelyva (hu), törek (hu), gluma (hu)
• Italian: gluma (it) f
• Romanian: glumă (ro) f
• Spanish: gluma f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

glume f (plural glumes)

1. glume

Further reading

• “glume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

glume f

1. plural of gluma

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlume]

Noun

glume f

1. inflection of glumă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular