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

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Friedrich Nietzsche