paleaceousadj.

1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus 38 The suble-hearted and paleaceous Sectaries are puffed up with self-conceit, prick up their eares to airy novelties, and are wherried about with every wind of Doctrine.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Receptaculum Its surface is sometimes naked, and sometimes paleaceous..all over beset with narrow pointed paleæ.

1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening I. 320/2 The receptacle is paleaceous and elevated.

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 99 Elichrysum..Yellow paleaceous flowers of long duration.

1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 191 Compare the common receptacles of Dandelion and Common Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) after removing the florets. In the former it is naked, in the latter covered with small chaffy scales (paleaceous).

1945 W. O. Howarth & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xiii. 364 Small scaly bracts, called paleae, are frequently present between the flowers (e.g. sunflower), and the capitulum is described as paleaceous.

1995 Brittonia 47 80/2 A paleaceous pappus bristle is a membranous structure made up of either a single layer or several layers of cells with thickened cell walls.