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Meaning of glume | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Deutsch Spelze
Español gluma
Suomi kale
Français glume
Italiano gluma
Polski plewka

Examples

“[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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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