What is the meaning of Palea?

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(n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
(n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
(n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

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