glabrous

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The inflorescence consists of a solitary, glabrous, and compressed spike, with a somewhat fragile rachis; the joints are compressed, hollow and clavate.

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  1. adjective Having no hairs, projections, or pubescence; smooth: a glabrous scalp; glabrous leaves.

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  • The inflorescence consists of a solitary, glabrous, and compressed spike, with a somewhat fragile rachis; the joints are compressed, hollow and clavate. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The nodes are glabrous The leaf-blade is linear, finely acuminate, glabrous, but sometimes somewhat scabrid along the nerves and with scattered long delicate hairs above especially when young, varying in length from 1 to 7 inches and 1/10 to 1/8 inch in breadth The inflorescence consists of paired spikes with very slender peduncles arising from flattened, glabrous, acuminate spathes, varying in length from 1/2 to 1-1/4 inches. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The ligule is membranous truncate, glabrous, about 1/16 inch in height. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • In some cases prostrate stems produce roots at the nodes The leaf-sheaths are long, glabrous, the mouth being generally hairy. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The fifth glume is awned, 3-nerved, glabrous, and globose This grass is very widely distributed and it grows in all kinds of soils. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
 

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  1. From Latin glaber, glabr-, bald.

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  1. from Latin glaber (glabr-), smooth, without hair, = Old High German Middle High German glat, German glatt = Dutch glad, smooth, sleek, = English glad: see glad.
 

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