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- 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.
- Paleaceous - a. - Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
- Paleae - pl. - of Palea
- Palearctic - a. - Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
- Bicarinate - a. - Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.