Definitions for glumes

glumes glume

Spelling: [gloom]
IPA: /glum/

Glumes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in glumes (eglmsu).

Definitions for glumes

noun

  1. one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.

Origin of glumes

1570-80; Latin glūma husk enclosing a cereal grain, probably equivalent to glūb(ere) to strip the bark from + *-sma noun suffix

Examples for glumes

The second glume is membranous, 1- to 5-nerved or nerveless.

The fourth glume is coriaceous, with a bisexual or female flower.

The second glume is equal to or shorter than the fourth, 5- to 7-nerved.

The fourth glume is as long as the third, ovate, obtuse, paleate.

The fourth glume is coriaceous, lanceolate, bisexual or female.

The third glume is chartaceous to sub-coriaceous and paleate.

The first glume is shorter than the second, ovate, obtuse, 7- to 9-nerved.

All of them may be awned as in Chloris or only the fourth glume as in Andropogon.

In Panicum it is nearly two-thirds or less than the third glume.

The first glume is concave, 3- to 5-nerved (rarely 3- to 7-nerved).

Word Value for glumes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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