— glumelike , adj.
/gloohm/ , n. Bot.
one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., esp. one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
[ 1570-80; gluma husk enclosing a cereal grain, prob. equiv. to glub ( ere ) to strip the bark from + * -sma n. suffix ]