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Bracts enclosing the flowers in grasses
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paleae
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Palea \Pa"le*a\, n.; pl. Pale[ae] (-[=e]). [L., chaff.] (Bot.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. (Zo["o]l.) A pendulous ...
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