Usually means: Scale-like bract in grasses.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. palea: Merriam-Webster
  2. palea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. palea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. palea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. palea: Wordnik
  6. palea: Wiktionary
  7. palea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. palea: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. palea: Dictionary.com
  10. Palea (botany), Palea (turtle), Palea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Palea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. palea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Palea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. palea: FreeDictionary.org
  15. palea: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (palea)

noun:  (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
noun:  (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

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