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n. A small chafflike bract enclosing the flower of a grass.

n. The chaffy scales on the receptacle of a flower head in a plant of the composite family.

n. The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

n. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

n. A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

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n. The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

n. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

n. A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

n. In botany:

n. One of the chaff-like bracts or scales subtending the individual flowers in the heads of many Compositæ chaff.

n. The scales on the stems of certain ferns.

n. The scale-like, usually membranaceous organ in the flowers of grasses which is situated upon a secondary axis in the axil of the flowering glume and envelops the stamens and pistil. It is always bicarinate and is usually bidentate. Also called palet.

n. In ornithology, a fleshy pendulous skin of the chin or throat, as the dewlap or wattle of the turkey.

n. In annelids, a flattened seta, as in Sabellaria.

"The fourth _glume_ is white, coriaceous, smooth and shining, oblong, acute, shortly and broadly stipitate, with the margins folded inwards exposing only a third of the palea; _palea_ is similar to the glume in texture and marking."

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