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Palea vs Paled - What's the difference?

palea | paled |

As a noun palea

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

As a verb paled is

(pale).

As an adjective paled is

(obsolete) striped.

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) ----

    paled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pale)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) striped
  • * Spenser
    • [Buskins] paled part per part.
  • (obsolete) Enclosed with a paling.
  • * Spenser
    • A paled green.

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