GLUME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("glume" is a kind of...):

bract (a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glume"):

flowering glume; lemma (the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae)