Palea

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

II. Palea ·noun A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

III. Palea ·noun One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, ·etc.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

← Pale   ×   Paleaceous →

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