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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



... [of wheat] is called Stipula as ustipula, and hath that name of usta, burnt. For when it is gathered some of the straw is burnt to help and amend the land. And some is kept to fodder of beasts, and is called Palea: for it is first meat that is laid tofore beasts, namely in some countries as in Tuscany. As Pliny saith, if the seed be touched with tallow or grease it is spoilt and lost. Among the best wheat sometimes grow ill weeds and venomous, as cockle and other such, also ...
— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele



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