chaffy

American  

[chaf-ee, chah-fee] / ˈtʃæf i, ˈtʃɑ fi /

adjective

chaffier, chaffiest

1. consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.

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Other Word Forms

• chaffiness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of chaffy

First recorded in 1545–55; chaff ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

He nubbed the ears—shelling off the small, chaffy kernels at their tips.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

July.—Stipes and the stout creeping rootstock bearing broad and deciduous chaffy scales.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Pappus none, or a cup or crown, or of 2 or 3 awns, teeth, or chaffy scales corresponding with the edges or angles of the achene, often with intervening minute bristles or scales.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Spikes tawny or brown, not elongated, very densely aggregated into a continuous globose somewhat chaffy head; perigynium ovate or ovate-lanceolate, nerveless or nearly so, mostly thin in texture.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Flowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa