1. One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers

Derived forms: paleas

Encyclopedia: Palea

• coach-and-four
• coachbuilder
• coaching
• coaching job
• coachload
• coachman
• coachwhip
• coachwhip snake
• coachwork
• coact
• coaction
• coactive
• coactively
• coadjutant
• coadjutor
• coagulable
• coagulant
• coagulase
• coagulate
• coagulated
• coagulation
• coagulation factor
• coagulator
• coagulum
• Coahuila