palea
noun
a chafflike scale or bract.
paleaceous
-
a word derived from
palea.
Example Sentences
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Antheridia in a short peduncled disk paleaceous beneath.
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
