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Palea
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
2. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
3. A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.