The lower palea of this plant forms an inverted flower-bud upon its midrib.
Near the island of Santorini, professor," the captain answered me, "and right in the channel that separates the volcanic islets of Nea Kameni and Palea Kameni.
Very likely, Professor Aronnax, because since 1866 eight little lava islets have surged up in front of the port of St. Nicolas on Palea Kameni.
The greyish-brown spikelet of Alopecurus easily falls as a whole, included in the glumes; the palea is loose and delicate.
Note the basal hair-tuft and rachilla, and the ciliate, toothed outer palea with a short awn-point, enclosing the inner more delicate palea.
Palea devoid of hairs or keel, notched or blunt, and with no trace of awn.
At p^2 the tip of the inner palea is visible protruding from the outer one p^1: in the rest it is still enclosed in the latter.
The fourth glume and its palea adhere together by their margins.
The palea is homologous with the prophyllum which it very much resembles.
The rachilla is produced behind the palea and it ends in two small teeth, one being slightly larger than the other.
It is the first leaf occurring in every branch on the side next to the main shoot and it is a two-keeled membranous structure resembling somewhat the palea found in the spikelets of grasses.
Palea is 3-nerved, narrow acuminate with a ciliate keel.
The flowering glumes are coriaceous, ovate, acute as long as the second or slightly longer, paleate, palea is sub-coriaceous and shorter than the glume.
The flower with its palea is thus sessile in the axil of a floriferous glume, and in a few grasses (Leersia (fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bark; bran; capsule; case; chaff; hull; husk; jacket; peel; pod; rind; shell; shuck; skin
