palea
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/ˈpalɪə/
English
Definitions
noun
- The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
- One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
- A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
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Synonyms
chaffphalarisglumellechaffweedcornhuskthatching grassbladebrachypodiumbeachgrasspaukpanherbageachyranthegrasspaleoherbbrachiariahair grass