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glume

/gloom/US // glum //UK // (ɡluːm) //

颖片,颖果,颖光,颖壳

Related Words

rind外皮,外皮层,外皮层层,外皮层层叠叠pod豆荚,舱,荚果,平台chaff秕糠,糠秕,糠,谷壳case案例,案件,案子,案shell空壳,壳,炮弹,外壳hull船体,船身,壳outside外界,外边,外来的,外边的skin皮肤,皮肤病,皮肤病患者bark吠声,吠叫声,吠叫,树皮shuck剥皮,剥壳,剥落,剥去aril旱地,旱灾,旱厕,旱地马拉松

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhusk
Synonyms
chaff秕糠,糠秕,糠,谷壳pod豆荚,舱,荚果,平台rind外皮,外皮层,外皮层层,外皮层层叠叠aril旱地,旱灾,旱厕,旱地马拉松bark吠声,吠叫声,吠叫,树皮case案例,案件,案子,案hull船体,船身,壳outside外界,外边,外来的,外边的shell空壳,壳,炮弹,外壳shuck剥皮,剥壳,剥落,剥去skin皮肤,皮肤病,皮肤病患者

Examples

  • In both the fruits fall out freely from the glume, and in the latter the awns are three-pronged and shorter than the grain.

  • The flowering glume is divided at the tip, and provided with a long, bent, twisted bristle.

  • Flowers all perfect; flowering glume bifid, short-awned between the teeth.

  • Flowering glume and palet herbaceous, the former (anterior) convex, long-awned from the apex.

  • Outer glumes unequal, often bristle-pointed; the flowering glume tipped with three awns; the palet much smaller.

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