glume 的定义
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.
glume 近义词
等同于 husk
更多glume例句
- 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.