palea
noun
a chafflike scale or bract.
paleate
-
a word derived from
palea.
Example Sentences
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The third glume is empty, paleate or not.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The third glume is similar to the second, paleate; palea is lanceolate and short.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The third glume is broadly ovate-oblong, subacute, 1-nerved, paleate; the palea is plicate in the median line.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The fourth glume is coriaceous or crustaceous, plano-convex, bisexual, 5-nerved and paleate; palea is as long as the glume.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The third glume is as long as the first, hyaline, thin, linear-oblong, nerveless, ciliate at the apex, paleate, usually with two stamens or empty; palea as long as the glume, hyaline and nerveless.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
