glume

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Flowering glume awnless, in fruit more rigid than the empty glumes.

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The others retained the elongated, narrow, brownish-red ears, the flowering glumes again opening wide for some days.

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Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough: The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now.

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Fertile glumes generally longer than the empty, unawned or with a straight, terminal awn.

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Chaff, small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composit�; the glumes, &c., of grasses.

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