Topic: word of the day: glume
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glume --Merriam-Webster
noun
ˈglüm
: a chaffy bract
specifically : either of two empty bracts at the base of the spikelet in grasses
Etymology
New Latin gluma, from Latin, hull, husk; akin to Latin glubere to peel — more at cleave
First Known Use
1789, in the meaning defined above
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