chaffy
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He nubbed the ears—shelling off the small, chaffy kernels at their tips.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Perianth not glumaceous or chaffy; flowers not in dense heads.
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 Asa Gray
Pappus a row of chaffy scales dissected into many bristles.
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 Asa Gray
Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation.
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 Asa Gray
July.—Rootstock very slender, creeping; stipes polished, brownish, darker and sparingly chaffy at base.
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 Asa Gray
What a rivalry must exist among the Chaffey Brothers as to who shall be the chaffiest and the wheatiest of the family!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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