chaffy

• Suppressing his name, he says that such a rhetorician was like barley bread [910] compared to a wheaten loaf,—windy, chaffy, and coarse. —  The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 13. GRAMMARIANS AND RHETORICIANS]
• Moldy, chaffy, grains and weed seeds may be cheaper to buy than sweet, sound materials, but the latter are cheaper to feed Begin giving green food when the chicks are three or four days old, cutting it up finely so they can eat it. —  Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
• Mostly small, rock-loving plants, usually rather chaffy, at least at the base, and growing in tufts. —  The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
• Stipes obscurely jointed near the base Fronds more or less chaffy, pinnć oblong to ovate crowded Rusty Woodsia Fronds linear, smooth, pinnć deltoid or orbicular Smooth Woodsia Fronds lanceolate, a few white scales beneath; pinn deltoid-ovate Alpine Woodsia THE WOODSIAS Small, tufted, pinnately divided ferns. —  The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
• As the name implies, the plant is smooth, except for the chaffy scales at or near the rootstock, which mark all the Woodsias, and many other ferns, and which serve as a protective covering against sudden changes in extremes of heat and cold 5) OREGON WOODSIA. —  The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

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