flowering glume

1. 1.

   the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

   Synonymslemma

   Broaderglume

Questions about flowering glume

What does flowering glume mean?

flowering glume means "the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae".

What is another word for flowering glume?

Close synonyms include lemma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flowering glume a common word?

flowering glume is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.