Palea to Pall
Palea
(||Pa"le*a) n.; pl. Paleæ [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. (Zoöl.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
Paleaceous
(Pa`le*a"ceous) a. [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished
with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
Palearctic
(Pa`le*arc"tic) a. [Paleo- + arctic.] Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes
all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
Paled
(Paled) a. [See 5th Pale.]
1. Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.
2. Inclosed with a paling. "A paled green." Spenser.
Paleëchinoidea
(||Pa`le*ëch`i*noi"de*a) n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Echinoidea.] (Zoöl.) An extinct order
of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called
also Palæechini. [Written also Palæechinoidea.]
Paleface
(Pale"face`) n. A white person; — an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites
by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.
Paleichthyes
(||Pa`le*ich"thy*es) n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive
division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]
Palely
(Pale"ly) adv. [From Pale, a.] In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.
Palempore
(Pal`em*pore") n. A superior kind of dimity made in India, — used for bed coverings. [Written
also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.
Paleness
(Pale"ness) n. The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly
whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
The blood the virgin's cheek forsook;
A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.
Pope. Palenque
(Pa*len"que) n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Paleo-
(Pa"le*o-) , adj.]—> A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere,
paleography. [Written also palæo-.]
Paleobotanist
(Pa`le*o*bot"a*nist) n. One versed in paleobotany.
Paleobotany
(Pa`le*o*bot"a*ny) n. [Paleo- + botany.] That branch of paleontology which treats of
fossil plants.
Paleocarida
(||Pa`le*o*car"ida) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ancient + , , , a kind of crustacean.] (Zoöl.) Same
as Merostomata. [Written also Palæocarida.]
Paleocrinoidea
(||Pa`le*o*cri*noi"de*a) n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Crinoidea.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of
Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
Paleocrystic
(Pa`le*o*crys"tic) a. [Paleo- + Gr. ice.] Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial
formation.
