palus1
/ˈpaləs/noun
Also with capital initial. A wine produced from grapes grown on alluvial land adjacent to the rivers of the Bordeaux wine region in France. Chiefly attributive.
Origin
Late 15th century (in an earlier sense).
palus2
/ˈpeɪləs/Zoology
noun
In certain corals: a vertical plate between the columella and the septa. Chiefly in plural.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Nicholson (1844–1899), biologist and geologist. From classical Latin pālus pale.