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Definition of Flowering glume
1. Noun. The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering Glume
Literary usage of Flowering glume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"flowering glume awned at the tip (except No. 35) of a firmer texture, ...
flowering glume owned below the tip. 3d. STII'A. flowering glume with a single ..."
2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"flowering glume awned. 2. flowering glume indurated, much firmer in ...
flowering glume usually hyaline and more delicate than the empty glumes, 1-awned. 3. ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"Palet about as long as the flowering glume, and of the same texture 15 ...
Spikelets one-flowered, flowering glume awned on the back 22 AGROSTIS. 72. ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"Palea nearly as long as flowering glume, z-keeled, the nerves ciliate like the
... In floral characters il differs chiefly in the awnless flowering glume. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Outer glumes strongly compressed, boat-shaped, keeled, nearly equal, frequently
united at base ; flowering glume shorter, keeled, with a slender dorsal awn, ..."
6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"flowering glume , usually with a tooth lobe or short awn on each side of the terminal
... flowering glume 2-fid, Spikes 6 to 12 or more, 3 to 6 in. long. ..."
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