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nounsmall dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceaetype of:
Definition that contains glume
- lemma the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
- prairie cordgrass North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
- eriophorum angustifolium having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
- slough grass North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
- agropyron subsecundum a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes
- flowering glume the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
- spartina pectinmata North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
- bearded wheatgrass a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes
- freshwater cordgrass North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
- common cotton grass having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes