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paleae

paleae is the plural of palea.

Meaning of palea

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

Questions about paleae

What is paleae the plural of?
Paleae is the plural of palea.

Words near paleae in the dictionary

  1. pale-spotted emperors
  2. pale-throated sloth
  3. palea
  4. paleaceous
  5. paleaceously
  6. paleae
  7. paleal
  8. paleanthropic
  9. paleanthropological
  10. paleanthropology
  11. paleaodistribution

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