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Palea vs Paleate - What's the difference?

palea | paleate |

As a noun palea

is (botany) the interior chaff or husk of grasses.

As an adjective paleate is

bearing paleae.

palea

English

Noun

(paleae)
  • (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
  • (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
  • (zoology) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    paleate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Bearing paleae.
    • ----