Associations to the word «Palea»

Wiktionary

PALEA, noun. (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
PALEA, noun. (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
PALEA, noun. (zoology) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke