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chafflike — adjective abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff • Syn: ↑chaffy • Pertains to noun: ↑chaff, ↑chaff (for: ↑chaffy) • Derivationally related forms: ↑chaf … Useful english dictionary
chaffy — adjective 1. abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff • Syn: ↑chafflike • Pertains to noun: ↑chaff (for: ↑chafflike), ↑chaff • Derivationally related forms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Alternanthera — Taxobox name = Alternanthera image width = 250px image caption = Alternanthera pungens , known as khakiweed regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Amaranthaceae subfamilia = Gomphrenoideae … Wikipedia
chaff — chaff1 chaffless, adj. chafflike, adj. /chaf, chahf/, n. 1. the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing. 2. straw cut up for fodder. 3. worthless matter; refuse. 4. the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the… … Universalium
glume — glumelike, adj. /gloohm/, n. Bot. one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., esp. one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet. [1570 80; < L gluma husk enclosing a cereal grain, prob. equiv.… … Universalium
palea — paleaceous / ay sheuhs/, paleate / it, ayt /, adj. /pay lee euh/, n., pl. paleae / lee ee /. 1. a chafflike scale or bract. 2. the scalelike, membranous organ in the flowers of grasses that is situated upon a secondary axis in the axil of the… … Universalium
ramentum — /reuh men teuhm/, n., pl. ramenta / teuh/. 1. a scraping, shaving, or particle. 2. Bot. one of the thin, chafflike scales covering the shoots or leaves of certain ferns. [1655 65; < L ramentum a shaving, shred < *radmentum, equiv. to rad(ere) to… … Universalium
chaffweed — noun A low glabrous weedy branching herb Centunculus minimus of the family Primulaceae having short dry chafflike leaves. Syn: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel … Wiktionary
strawberry — [OE] The origins of strawberry have long puzzled etymologists. The two most plausible suggestions put forward are that the runners put out by strawberry plants, long trailing shoots that spread across the ground, reminded people of straws laid on … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
glume — [[t]glum[/t]] n. bot one of a pair of chafflike bracts enclosing the floral parts of a spikelet in grasses • Etymology: 1570–80; < L glūma husk enclosing a cereal grain, prob. =glūb(ere) to strip the bark from +* sma n. suffix glu•ma•ceous… … From formal English to slang
