Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small chafflike bract enclosing the flower of a grass.
- n. The chaffy scales on the receptacle of a flower head in a plant of the composite family.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany:
- n. One of the chaff-like bracts or scales subtending the individual flowers in the heads of many Compositæ chaff.
- n. The scales on the stems of certain ferns.
- n. The scale-like, usually membranaceous organ in the flowers of grasses which is situated upon a secondary axis in the axil of the flowering glume and envelops the stamens and pistil. It is always bicarinate and is usually bidentate. Also called palet.
- n. In ornithology, a fleshy pendulous skin of the chin or throat, as the dewlap or wattle of the turkey.
- n. In annelids, a flattened seta, as in Sabellaria.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
Etymologies
- Latin, chaff.
Examples
“The fourth _glume_ is white, coriaceous, smooth and shining, oblong, acute, shortly and broadly stipitate, with the margins folded inwards exposing only a third of the palea; _palea_ is similar to the glume in texture and marking.”
“The _third glume_ is broadly oblong, subacute or obtuse, 1-nerved, glabrous, with a palea as long as the glume; the _palea_ is 2-nerved, oblong and truncate at the apex.”
“The _fourth glume_ is ovate-lanceolate and abruptly narrowed above the middle, 5-nerved and paleate, palea is shorter than the glume but broader, 2-nerved and acute.”
“_flowering glumes_ are ovate, obtuse, as long as the second glume or slightly longer, sub-chartaceous, glabrous, three-nerved; palea is shorter than the glume, curved obovate oblong and persistent on the rachilla.”
“The third glume is very narrow, cylindric, coriaceous, convolute, acuminate, 3-nerved, tip produced into a long 3-partite, naked or hairy awn twisted below the branches, with a minute palea which is convolute round the ovary.”
“+ Paucapalea, perhaps the first disciple of Gratian, whence, it is said, the name "palea" given to the additions to the "Decretum”
“The florets are enclosed by other specialized bracts (the lemma and palea).”
“Eustathii l. 3. aspectus amorem incendit, ut marcescentem in palea ignem ventus; ardebam interea majore concepto incendio.”
“Jacet granum opressum palea, justus caesus pravorum framea.”
“The _fourth glume_ is narrow, truncate, 3-nerved, paleate; the _palea_ is truncate and wrapped round the ovary.”
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