Palea definitions

Palea

1) Bract
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Palea

1) Bract of a flower 2) Chaffy bract of a floret 3) Floral bract 4) Floret bract 5) Flower bract 6) Grass bract 7) Grass flower bract 8) Grass spike bract 9) Leaf around a floret 10) Membrane of grasses 11) Part of a grass spike 12) Plant scale
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palea

Latin, meaning: chaff
Found on http://archives.nd.edu/ppp.htm

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palea

the upper of 2 bracts enclosing a grass flower.
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms

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Palea

[botany] Palea, in botany, has two separate meanings. It may be used as an alternate term for one of the receptacular bracts found in the family Asteraceae. Otherwise, it refers to one of the bract-like organs in the spikelet of the grass family, Poaceae. == Asteraceae == Known collectively as `chaff`, the paleas, when present, each subtend...
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palea_(botany)

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palea

the upper of the two bracts of a grass floret, usually enclosing the lodicules, stamens and ovary. pl. paleae. adj. paleal. cf. lemma
Found on http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/help/glossary

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Palea

• (n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. • (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. • (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
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palea

(from the article `Poaceae`) ...overlapping scales. There are three kinds of scales. The lowermost, called glumes, are usually two in number, and they enclose some or all of the ...
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/7

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palea

(from the article `fern`) ...a headlike cluster of secretory terminal cells); simple (unbranched), nonglandular hairs; dendroid hairs (branching filaments); and scales (flat ...
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/7

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Palea

in grasses, the upper and generally smaller of the two bracts of the floret
Found on http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/botanicalterms.html

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palea

<botany> In a grass floret, the upper one of the two bracts enclosing a flower. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973

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Palea

in grasses, the upper and ly smaller of the two bracts of the floret
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21767

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Palea

The uppermost or innermost of the two bracts (lemma and palea) that subtend and enclose the flower (or grain) in grasses.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22034

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Palea

In grasses the upper bract that with the lemma encloses the flower.
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Palea

Pa'le·a noun ; plural Paleæ (-ē). [ Latin , chaff.] 1. (Botany) (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.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/6

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palea

chaff.
Found on https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/frivs/latin/latin-dict-full.html

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