Associations to the word «Glume»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

GLUME, noun. Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope