Palea

[peiliә]

Definition

(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.

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Definition

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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