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palea

UK/ˈpælɪə/

palea noun: the interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Noun

palea (plural paleae or pales)

  1. The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
  2. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
    • In a single Brazilian species, doubtfully referred to Brickellia, a few pales occur toward the edge of the disk.1917, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, A Monograph of the Genus Brickellia

palea meaning in Tamil

palea in Tamil

உமிச்செதில், உள்ளுமி, பலியா

Forms of palea

pluralpaleae
pluralpales

Origin of palea

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Words formed from palea

Questions about palea

What does palea mean?
Palea means the interior chaff or husk of grasses.
What is palea in Tamil?
Palea in Tamil is உமிச்செதில், உள்ளுமி, பலியா. See Palea meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is palea?
Palea is a noun.
How do you pronounce palea?
Palea is pronounced /ˈpælɪə/ (UK).
What is the plural of palea?
The plural of palea is paleae.

Words near palea in the dictionary

  1. pale-footed bush warblers
  2. pale-headed rosella
  3. pale-spotted emperor
  4. pale-spotted emperors
  5. pale-throated sloth
  6. palea
  7. paleaceous
  8. paleaceously
  9. paleae
  10. paleal
  11. paleanthropic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palea (page history and authors); palea (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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