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語源

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

発音

• 韻: -uːm

名詞

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.

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