Palea

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palea \Pa"le*a\, n.; pl. {Pale[ae]} (-[=e]). [L., chaff.]
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     1. (Bot.)
        (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
        (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the
            receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis,


            the sunflower, etc.
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     2. (Zool.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a
        bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
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