单词 | glume |
释义 | glumen. Botany. One of the chaff-like bracts which form the calyx or outer envelope in the inflorescence of grasses and sedges; the husk of corn or other grain. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun] huskc1400 hosea1450 pannicle1672 surfoil1672 squama1738 palea1753 spatha1753 pelt1759 pelta1760 spath1763 bract1771 scale1776 spathe1785 scalelet1787 glume1789 ramentum1793 rament1813 paleola1829 bracteole1830 bractlet1835 glumelle1836 palea1836 pale1847 periphyll1858 bracket1860 glumella1861 glumellule1861 lodicule1864 bract-sheath1870 palet1871 palea1875 pale1890 prophyllum1890 hypsophyll1895 pale1900 prophyll1902 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 26v Gluma is the huske of the Corne whose top is the Aane. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 300 Each gluma or husk terminates in three Awns, two of which are even, the other somewhat longer.] 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 9 (note) The chaffy scales of the calyx..and the glume in some alpine grasses..grow into leaves. 1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) 888 Rye-grass..is now cut..when it is just coming into flower; and therefore to collect the glumes or empty husks can be of no use as seed. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 472 Their seeds, often enveloped in chaffy glumes. 1896 H. Edmonds Bot. for Beginners 85 Each flower [of wheat] is contained within a flowering glume and a pale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1789 |
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