glume

• It often extends beyond the insertion of the terminal flower and its glume, and then lies hidden appressed to the palea. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The second glume is about half as long as the third glume, membranous, usually 3-nerved and sometimes 3- to 5-nerved, distinctly ciliate. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The first glume is about half of the third glume, broadly ovate or suborbicular, acute, generally 3-nerved, rarely 5-nerved, pubescent between and hispidly hairy on the nerves. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The fourth glume is shorter than the third glume, lanceolate, subacute, thinly coriaceous white, polished, dorsally convex; the palea is as long as the glume and thinly coriaceous. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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