Definition of palea Palea
pa•le•a
We found 7 definitions of palea from 3 different sources.
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What does palea mean?
Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- palea (n.)
The interior chaff or husk of grasses. - palea (n.)
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. - palea (n.)
A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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palea
pā′lē-a, n. (bot.) a chaffy bract at the base of the florets in many Compositæ, also one of the inner scales of a grass-flower opposite the flowering glume: the throat-wattle, as in turkeys:—pl. Pā′leæ.—adj. Paleā′ceous (bot.), resembling, consisting of, or furnished with chaff: chaffy. [L. palea, chaff.]
