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glume

4 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. glume (noun)
  2. glume blotch (noun)
  3. empty glume (noun)
  4. flowering glume (noun)

glume

noun \ˈglüm\

Definition of GLUME

: a chaffy bract; specifically : either of two empty bracts at the base of the spikelet in grasses

Origin of GLUME

New Latin gluma, from Latin, hull, husk; akin to Latin glubere to peel — more at cleave
First Known Use: 1789

Rhymes with GLUME

bloom, boom, broom, brume, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, groom, khoum, loom, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, toom, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

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