The dry outer integument of certain fruits and seeds; esp. the hard fibrous sheath of grain, nuts, etc.; a glume or rind; spec. in U.S., the outer…

A sheath or sheathing part; spec. the sheath enclosing the ear or straw of corn; the sheath or spathe of an Arum.

Botany. A membranous covering in a plant, such as a bract, sepal, or bud scale. Obsolete. rare.

In the terminology of Nehemiah Grew: a structure serving to cover and protect the leaves, as a scale on a bud or a cotyledon.

Botany. = scale, n.2 3d.

Botany. Any of the scales found on the receptacle at the base of the individual florets in many plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). Cf. pale…

Botany. A spathe.

Botany. The pelta of a lichen. Cf. pelta, n. 2.

Botany. Any of various shield-like structures, typically either crescent-shaped or having the form of a slightly concave disc; spec. a flat…

= spar, n.2

Botany. A small modified leaf, or scale, growing immediately below the calyx of a plant, or upon the peduncle of a flower.

Botany. A flattened, membranous, more or less circular plate of cellular tissue, usually a rudimentary or degenerate leaf, as the covering of…

Botany. A large bract or sheathing-leaf enveloping the inflorescence (usually a spadix) of certain plants, as arums, palms, etc., in such a way as…

A small scale.

One of the chaff-like bracts which form the calyx or outer envelope in the inflorescence of grasses and sedges; the husk of corn or other grain.

Botany. A thin, brownish, membranous epidermal appendage on a stem or leaf, esp. of a fern; a scale.

Botany. = ramentum, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

A lodicule or hypogynous scale in the floret of a grass.

A small bract, a bractlet.

A minute or secondary bract.

= glumella, n.

Botany. Either of the two bracts commonly enclosing the stamens and ovary in the floret of a grass; spec. the upper or inner of the two. Cf. pale, n.5…

= palea, n. 1b.

= lodicule, n. rare.

transferred (? with allusion to bract, n.)

An inner glume or palea.

One of the scales frequently found at the base of the ovary in grasses; a lodicule.

A green or white scale, the lowest part of a grass flower.

Botany. attributive, as in bract-sheath.

A palea (palea, n. 1), esp. one in the floret of a grass (palea, n. 1b).

Botany. Any of the scales found on the stipe in many ferns.

More fully Pale of Settlement. A set of specified provinces and districts within which Jews in Russia and Russian-occupied Poland were required to…

= prophyll, n. 1.

a leaf of the inflorescence, a bract or bracteole.

= palea, n. 1a.

The first leaf, or either of the first two leaves, on a lateral shoot, distinguishable (often smaller) in shape and form from later leaves. Cf…