Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Palea \Pa"le*a\, n.; pl. {Pale[ae]} (-[=e]). [L., chaff.]
   1. (Bot.)
      (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
      (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the
          receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis,
          the sunflower, etc.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat
      of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.