Having the nature of or resembling glume; composed of or bearing glumes.
From Latin 'gluma' (husk) + '-ose' (suffix meaning 'full of' or 'having the quality of'). This formal botanical adjective was constructed in the 18th-19th centuries.
Botanical adjectives like 'glumose' pack precise meaning into one word—telling scientists immediately that a plant's structure centers on those protective chaffy bracts.
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