See Also: Glume(medicine)
glume(dictionary)

chirp (oh) and glume (iou)


chirp (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: From the sound]
[I and T] if a bird or insect chirps, it makes short high sounds
to speak in a happy high voice
::'Yes, all finished,' he chirped.
-- chirp n [C]

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.