Palea

Palea - Other Definitions

• (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.