glume

noun

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

   [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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry glume (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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