Paleae

Word PALEAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Paleae"

What do we mean by paleae?

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

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The word "paleae" in example sentences

Spikelets one flowered; inferior paleae awned ovarium stipitate. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Spikelets one flowered, glume naked, beardless, 2 valved, valves longer than the paleae, paleae membranaceous. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Its glumes are two, membranaceous, equal, Keeled and one flowered; paleae coriaceous, shorter than the glumes and pubesent at base; flowers in compound spikes. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Its glumes are from two to three flowered; lateral florets imperfect, with one paleae, bearded; intermediate florets perfect, shorter than the latteral ones. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Agrostis; glume naked and beardless; two valved; one flowered; valves longer than the paleae; paleae two, membranaceous; stigmas longitudinally hispid. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Spikelets ovate, accuminate three to four flowered, tinged with yellow at the apex; glumes long, lanceolate, very acute; paleae lanceolate, rather obtuse and pubescent at base. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Glume 2, nearly equal, sometimes wanting; lower paleae entire with a short awn; -- upper one bifid. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Paleae concave, equal, beardless; seed coated with the paleae; flowers in loose scattered panicles. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Spikelets three to four flowered; glumes unequal; scabrous at the apex; lower paleae obtuse; pubescent at base; culm from two to three feet high. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Page 140 of other plants, called glumes, and two more delicate inner ones, answering to the coral, called paleae. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Spikelets compressed; paleae sometimes woolly at base; scales smooth; panicle more or less branching or scattered. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Ears expel anthers when kept in water in room; but the paleae apparently do not open and expose stigma; but the stigma could easily be artificially impregnated. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

The paleae open for a short period for stigma to be dusted, and then close again, and such travelling down would take place under protection. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

MS.); culmo ramoso stricto, foliis glabris margine spinoso-scabris basi planis apice involutis, spicâ cylindraceâ distichâ secundâ, spiculis subtrifloris flore summo mutico abortiente, paleae inferioris dorso lanatae aristâ rectâ glumâ mucronatâ multinervi longiore.] 149 [J. MITCHELLII; foliis ternatis glabris; foliolis linearibus linearilanceolatisque, ramis teretibus, corymbis axillaribus subsessilibus foliis multo brevioribus, calycibus pubescentibus subtruncatis 5-dentatis, corollae limbo 5-fido acuto.] 22D OCTOBER. — ❋ Unknown (2003)

MS.); culmo ramoso stricto, foliis glabris margine spinoso-scabris basi planis apice involutis, spicâ cylindraceâ distichâ secundâ, spiculis subtrifloris flore summo mutico abortiente, paleae inferioris dorso lanatae aristâ rectâ glumâ mucronatâ multinervi longiore.] [**** J. MITCHELLII; foliis ternatis glabris; foliolis linearibus linearilanceolatisque, ramis teretibus, corymbis axillaribus subsessilibus foliis multo brevioribus, calycibus pubescentibus subtruncatis 5-dentatis, corollae limbo 5-fido acuto.] 22D OCTOBER. ❋ Thomas Mitchell (1823)

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