| NOUN | plant | glume | small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae |
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| Meaning | small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae. | |
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| Narrower | lemma, flowering glume | The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae |
| Broader | bract | A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence |
| Spanish | gluma | |
| Catalan | gluma | |
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