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

Derived forms: paleas

Encyclopedia: Palea

• three-hundredth
• three-lane
• three-legged
• three-lipped
• three-lobed
• three-membered
• three-mile limit
• three-needled
• three-party
• three-petaled
• three-petalled
• three-piece
• three-piece suit
• three-ply
• three-point landing
• three-point switch
• three-point turn
• three-pronged
• three-quarter binding
• three-quarters
• three-ring circus
• three-seeded
• three-seeded mercury
• three-sided
• three-spined stickleback