palea
/'peiliә/
📖 中文释义
- [植](禾本科的)内稃, (菊科的)托苞
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- 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.