Palea n. : The interior chaff or husk of grasses.Palea n. : One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.Palea n. : A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.Example:Authentic Palea (a spanish seafood saffron rich dish)?TaxonomyPalea, botany, organs, free encyclopedia, bract, lemma, sepals, perianth, whorl, floral organs, interpretations, grass spikelet, search, city, chaff, floret, cleft, double structure.Defination from the web:Palea, in botany, refers to one of the bract-like organs of the grass spikelet (Poaceae) ... The perianth interpretation of palea is supported by the expression of MADS-box genes in this organ during development, as is the case in sepals of eudicot plants[1] ...
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