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chaff
(redirected from glume)

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chaff
1. chaffed hay; called also chop.
2. the winnowings from a threshing, consisting of awns, husks, glumes and other relatively indigestible materials.


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The suspected parent -- some extinct, pod-bearing popcorn - wrapped each seed in a chaff-like glume, the same type of wrapper that encases individual wheat seeds, Van der Merwe says.
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