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Palea   Listen
noun
Palea  n.  (pl. paleae)  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
(b)
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
2.
(Zool.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.





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"Palea" Quotes from Famous Books



... ecclesiarum ministri, ut, nulla pene hora diei, suum desit pabulum et quidem syncerum, ut nulla subsit palea aut ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird


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