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Palea vs Palet - What's the difference?

palea | palet |

As nouns the difference between palea and palet

is that palea is (botany) the interior chaff or husk of grasses while palet is (heraldiccharge) a perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

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) ----

    palet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
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