Plural of glume; the chaffy bracts that enclose grass and sedge flowers.
Plural form of Latin 'gluma' (husk). The English plural simply adds '-s' to the Latinized singular form.
When you separate wheat kernels from chaff at a grain harvest, you're holding thousands of glumes in your hands—the very structures that protected your future bread.
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