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- Chaffy - a. - Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
- Chaffy - a. - Light or worthless as chaff.
- Chaffy - a. - Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
- Chaffy - a. - Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
- Glumelle - n. - One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets 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.
- Ramenta - n. pl. - Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
- Bran - n. - The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.