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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glume \Glume\, n. [L. gluma hull, husk, fr glubere to bark or peel: cf F. glume or gloume.] (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. --Gray. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: glume n : small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
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