The quality of being glumose; the state of having or bearing glumes; the characteristic of being chaffy or husk-like.
From 'glumose' + '-ity' (Latin suffix forming abstract nouns). This technical botanical term was created in the 19th century following standard Latinate word-formation patterns.
The term 'glumosity' represents the obsessive precision of Victorian botanists—they created a noun just to discuss the degree to which a plant expressed its glume-bearing nature.
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