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glume (iou) and obelus (iou)


glume (iou)



glume noun. [glu:m] L18.
[Latin gluma hull, husk rel. to glubere to shell, to peel.]
Botany. Any of certain chaffy or membranous scales in the inflorescence of grasses or related plants: (a) (in grasses) either of the two empty bracts subtending the spikelet (more fully empty glume, sterile glume); also (now rare) = LEMMA noun2 2 (more fully flowering glume); (b) (in sedges and Other plants of the Cyperaceae) the bract enclosing the flower.
glu'maceous adjective resembling or having glumes; characterized by bearing glumes, as the grasses and sedges: E19.
'glumose adjective (now rare) having a glume or husk L18.

obelus (iou)



obelus noun. . LME.
[Latin = spit, critical obelus from Greek obelos: see OBELISK.]
A straight horizontal stroke (-), sometimes with a dot above and below (), used in ancient manuscripts to mark a word, passage, etc., esp. as spurious. Also, a dagger-shaped Reference mark () used in printed matter as a Reference to a footnote etc., and in some dictionaries to denote obsoleteness. Also called obelisk.