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Glume vs Glome - What's the difference?

glume | glome |

As nouns the difference between glume and glome

is that glume is a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae while glome is one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.

As a verb glome is

to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

glume

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae)

    • glome

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  • (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (glom)
  • (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
    • (Surrey)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) gloom
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