glumelle

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French glumelle, diminutive of glume.

Noun

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glumelle (plural glumelles)

  1. (botany) One of the inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Translations

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for glumelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

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glumelle f (plural glumelles)

  1. glumelle

Further reading

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