Palea

[peiliә]

解释:

(n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

(n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

(n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

整理:普雷斯利

解释:

n. (bot.) a chaffy bract at the base of the florets in many Composit also one of the inner scales of a grass-flower opposite the flowering glume: the throat-wattle as in turkeys:—pl. Pā′le?/span>.—adj. Paleā′ceous (bot.) resembling consisting of or furnished with chaff: chaffy.

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