glume

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

balle

bale

Synonymes

awn

beard

chaff

cornhusk

straw

Traductions

gluma

Ähre

Granne

Hüllspelze

Intelligenz

Spelze

Spitze

Ährenspitze

άχυρο

φλοιός σιτηρών

vlies

gluma

gluma

Étymologie (Anglais)

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