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palea - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'palea' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Palea [ n.]
- The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
- One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
- A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.