Crossword-Solution: PALEA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palea | n. | The interior chaff or husk of grasses. |
| Palea | n. | One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. |
| Palea | n. | A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PALEA | anagram | ALEAP, APALE, APEAL, APLEA, PALAE |
We have 26 clues for the answer “PALEA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plant scale | 1 answer |
| Part of a spikelet. | 1 answer |
| PARTICLE of chaff | 1 answer |
| Membrane of grasses | 1 answer |
| Leaf around a floret. | 1 answer |
| Grass spike bract | 1 answer |
| Grass membrane | 1 answer |
| Bract enclosing the flower, in grasses. | 1 answer |
| Bract of a flower. | 1 answer |
| Chaffy bract at base of flower. | 1 answer |
| Chaffy bract of a floret. | 1 answer |
| Grass flower bract | 1 answer |
| Floret bract. | 1 answer |
| Flower bract | 1 answer |
| Floral bract. | 2 answers |
| SCALE under blossom of plant | 2 answers |
| Grass bract | 2 answers |
| Part of a sunflower | 2 answers |
| Chaffy bract | 2 answers |
| Grass Coat | 2 answers |
| bract | 6 answers |
| goddess of industry | 9 answers |
| A SMALL BRACT | 10 answers |
| GRASS, part of | 10 answers |
| A CONSPICUOUS BRACT SURROUNDING OR SUBTENDING A SPADIX OR OTHER INFLORESCENCE | 10 answers |
| Plant part | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PALEA (5)
And some is kept to fodder of beasts, and is called Palea: for it is first meat that is laid tofore beasts, namely in some countries as in Tuscany.
Palea [Paucapalea, a pupil of Gratian]: Heretics, when disputing,[L] place the whole strength of their wits upon the dialectic art, which, in the judgment of philosophers, is defined as having the power not of aiding but of destroying study.
Inside the fourth glume and between it and the palea there are three stamens and an ovary with two styles ending in feathery stigmas.
Both these glumes may have perfect flowers as in Isachne or the terminal one may contain a perfect flower, the lower having either a staminate flower or only a palea.
Some in Europe call the flowering glume lower palea to distinguish it from the real palea which they call the upper palea.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1959–1998).